Org Structure

What this category covers

The shape of the company itself: what teams exist, who reports to whom, which roles we staff with full-time employees versus contractors, and what we measure people against.

Two years of managed contraction have already changed this without anyone deciding it. Engineering headcount has fallen through attrition rather than through a plan, contractors have replaced full-time hires, and the economic home of the development bench has quietly shifted toward Staffing. The strategies here are about making deliberate choices where the organization has so far been drifting.

Strategies

Strategy	Description
Right-size the firm to the market we actually have	Design the organization for the work that exists now rather than defending the shape built for a market that is not coming back.
Replace utilization as the operating metric	Under Feature Billing, a filled hour is no longer a billed hour. Move the firm's primary measures to throughput, responsiveness, margin per engagement and estimate accuracy.
Solve the architect pipeline	Architects have historically grown out of years of senior development work, which is exactly the work AI is absorbing. An architect-led firm needs a way to produce architects.