Overwhelmed teams and cognitive load

One of the major current concerns in many companies is that teams and individuals are getting more and more overwhelmed and cognitively overloaded in their work. This is especially the case in very large organizations. This feeling of being overwhelmed is claimed to be caused by giving teams too much repsonsibility and too many systems to deliver and maintain. The popular thinking is that solution is on the team level: "just reduce or limit the amount of responsibility a team should have". This thinking is deeply mistaken leading to serious organizational issues and the original problem of being overwhelmed or cognitively overloaded becomes often even larger. I will show you why and how organizational structure has large effect on feeling of being overwhelmed, and why teams with huge shared responsibilities don't feel overwhelmed or cognitively overloaded.

Viktor GrgicSoftware Product development expert
Hong Kong, Гонконг
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