Summary
Phew, that was a lot to take in! In this chapter, we covered three fundamental concepts, namely tenants, organizations, and teams.
You first learned how to manage different facets of multi-tenancy. You then became familiar with organization structures, which covered departments, positions, and job assignments. Finally, you acquired new knowledge about managers and teams, as well as different types of organization structures, including matrix organizations.
You might still be unsure about when to model a business entity as a tenant, as a framework, or as a department. While there are no clear-cut rules about when to use which structural elements, there are the following rules of thumb:
- Tenants represent self-contained business units with a high degree of autonomy, an individual look and feel, and separate structural elements.
- Frameworks act as containers for departments and positions and are usually part of the same business entity, managed centrally.
- Departments...