Particulars turns the work already happening into a living model of how the company works. The model helps every team make better decisions and get more done, faster. (And have more fun doing it.)
Build and ship the Particulars platform.
Build and ship the Particulars platform.
Purpose, work, measures, authority, roles, and working rules live in the same useful shape for every team. Start manually or draft from the work already happening.
Particulars maps the dependencies, decisions, and interfaces the org chart misses, so teams can see where their work meets and move together.
Every confirmed decision, change, and outcome strengthens the shared model. The next team starts with more context than the last.
Forty years of team-effectiveness research says much of a team’s performance can be predicted from how it is designed — before the work begins. Purpose, composition, authority, interfaces, and norms are not administrative details. They are the operating conditions.
Particulars puts those conditions somewhere the team can see them, change them, and keep them close to reality.
Wageman, Hackman & Lehman, “Team Diagnostic Survey” (2005)
Hackman, “Leading Teams” (2002)
Team performance is not a bell curve. Across 200,825 teams, researchers found much more variation—and many more star teams—than a normal distribution would predict.
One team moves right by improving its operating conditions. A company moves right when teams do that together: each one can see the purpose, authority, decisions, measures, and dependencies around it.
Bradley & Aguinis, Team Performance (2022) ↗People set the purpose, make the judgments, and remain responsible for change. Computers can use the same model to help, with current context and explicit limits.
Over time, those connected improvements can create a kind of organizational superintelligence: every team making decisions with more of what the whole company knows.
“The work already knows how the company works. Particulars makes it visible.”
— The Particulars thesis