Pattern for Agile Organizations
Read this text to see the idea of sociocracy as a form of organizational design. This is a way for organizations to transcend the traditional approach to organizational change. While the model is primarily applied to software organizations, it can be used by other organizations that want to be sure that information flows to and from the appropriate parties and ensure that experts can participate in the decisions that affect them. The text considers governance, teams, and collaboration internally and externally. The graphics make the complexity of the linkages easy to understand as the author presents consent decision-making, double linking, and governance in iterations.
Key Concepts for Making Sense of Organizations
Agreements
An agreement is an agreed upon guideline, process, protocol or policy designed to guide the flow of value.
Shared guidelines about why, how and when to act, and what is specifically required, enable effective collaboration.
Agreements are created in response to organizational drivers, are regularly reviewed and evolved as necessary.
Overall accountability for an agreement lies with the people that make them.
An agreement can include delegation of specific responsibilities to individuals or groups.