How to Build Your Own Management System

An episode about how a management system must evolve with scale, moving from one leader's personal effectiveness to end-to-end ownership shared by several leaders. Guest: Mikhail Tyurganov, Head of the Digital Services Development Department at Alfa-Bank.

His path from materials science and running a small business to a large technology organization frames the cost of ultimatums, the shift from project coordination to domain CTOs, the headcount-growth trap, and product-platform tension.

The central conclusion is that structure cannot be copied or imposed by declaration. It works when participants agree on mutual value, the platform accelerates small product teams, and the CTO owns outcomes from development through operations.