Jean Tabaka, an Agile Fellow with Rally Software in Boulder, CO, concentrates on practices in collaboration and leadership. She shares her  list of the Top 10 characteristics of an Agile organization, and #5 concerns the importance of practicing both Bottom-up and Top-down decision making.

In a 4 minute video, Jean talks about how successful organizations embrace a notion of the ‘knowledge-creating company.’ In Agile, knowledge-creation can use “5 Levels of Planning” to ensure they are engaging in this whole organization practice. In sum, the highest level of planning, the vision, feeds and is fed by all subsequent levels, down to the lowest level of planning, the detailed daily work.

For more on Bottom-Up and Top-Down Decision Making and other management tips, check out this link.