A dirty-work group (DWG) is a team where each member gets to pick job which they would love to do (even if it is not according to their core competence): "nice-work", and one they may not love to do (even if it is not according to their core competence): "dirty-work", which they would have had to do otherwise. Once the task have been picked, a person does his or her Nice-Work and the Dirty-Work is done by someone who has that task listed as a Nice-Work.
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2 Advantages of forming a Dirty-Work Group 3 Organisation Structure using Dirty-Work Groups 4 External links |
Following steps are involved in creating a Dirty-Work Group:
Such an organisation will be composed to many different sized Dirty-Work Groups. As communication is the most vital aspect, each Dirty-Work group defines three kinds of interfaces. These tasks are to be picked up when the group is forming.
An Interface is a person who is one point contact for everyone form outside the group for the Dirty-Work Group. The different kind of interfaces are:
Creating a Dirty-Work Group
Advantages of forming a Dirty-Work Group
Organisation Structure using Dirty-Work Groups
One interesting thing about such an organisation would be split in teams rather than in projects. Teams will not be allocated to projects, but projects will be allocated to teams.