A tool that helps managers and individual contributors design systems that get better performance out of dual-reporting roles.
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TL;DR: If you have two bosses (officially or otherwise), you probably are in a matrixed organization, and you probably have a few problems that can be solved with this canvas.
For employees and managers in matrixed roles, life is hard.
That's because consensus is hard, and the whole dual-reporting thing was designed around consensus.
But in general, managers tend to focus on the individual, rather than the system.
What’s going on with so-and-so? Why can’t they keep up?
Turns out it's about learning, all the way down: How basic technologies shift strategy; Microsoft's org structure research; X-Teams; building Service Design capability; democracy at work