Can You scale-down with dignity?
summary
Concrete plan to shrink a 500-person program down to 100 while still shipping releases and keeping product quality: set one objective — deliver July 2017 release and exit the project structure — then run recruitment, team formation, focused knowledge transfer and release preparation to compress the knowledge of 500 heads into 100. Leaders self-select and design transitions, supplemented by outplacement and loyalty bonuses and continuous communication. Early outcome shows high engagement and progress on the 500→100 (20% retained) goal.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:08The Everest Project
- 1:55The Problem
- 4:06The Process
- 5:01The Challenge
- 6:50The Goal
- 8:03Engagement
- 9:37Empowerment
- 10:39Conclusion
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