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Dublin 28.9.2016
SELF MANAGING ORGANIZATIONS,
TEAL AND HOLACRACY IN PRACTICE
One year later
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Dublin 28.9.2016
TONIO ZEMP
Former member of the former management board
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LIIP?
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ZÜRICH BERN FRIBOURG LAUSANNE
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5 Locations in Switzerland 160 Liipers 2 Drupal Teams 23 Issues fixed in the past 3 months
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TODAY
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PREVIOUSLY…
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LET’S DO THIS!
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WHY?
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- „Because it’s cool!“
- „That’s the future“
- „That’s how we always wanted to be“
- „No boss anymore, awesome!“
- „No painful decisions anymore!“
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- „We’re very close to that“
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WHY? (IN THEORY)
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- Efficiency
- Empowered individuals, more value creation
- Reduced overhead
- Faster decisions, more agility
- Stability
- Distributed decisions, no single point of failure
- Satisfaction
- Wholeness, purpose
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HOW?
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SLIDE 29 HOW TO GET SELF-ORGANIZED
- Continuously customize?
- Switch to a known standard?
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AFTER DRUPALCON BARCELONA…
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THE DECISION
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- 10% went to Holacracy trainings
- Equal pros and cons
- Safe enough to try
- Holacracy took of January 1st 2016
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HOLACRACY
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WHERE TO PUT IT
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Agile Manifesto I Agile Development I Scrum
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Agile Manifesto I Agile Development I Scrum Teal Organization I Self Organization I Holacracy
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WHERE IT IS FROM
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- Brian J. Robertson
- Former Developer
- Developed Holacracy while
he was CEO of a rapidly
growing soware company
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HOW IT WORKS
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- Role has a Purpose and n Accountabilities
- Can have Domains with Policies
- Roles can be grouped into Circles
- Roles can request Actions and Projects from other Roles
(Tactical Level)
- Roles can raise Tensions and provide Proposals to change the
structure (Governance Level)
- Strict Tactical and Governance Meeting protocols
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HOW WE TOOK OFF
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- 10% educated, some advanced
- Greenfield development, empty role structure
- A workshop with consultants
- Copy current structure and evolve
- Internal trainings
- Holacracy implementation circle
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OUR HOLARCHY TODAY
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ACHIEVEMENTS
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- It works!
- Scrum for client projects, Holacracy for internal organization
- Transparent role structure
- Nasty stuff gets tackled also by others than former managers
- Responsibility increase
- Agility in structure
- Few Domains and Policies
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CHALLENGES
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- Change Management, the first time
- Holacracy interpretation
- Cultural change
- What to do with the Team, social entity
- Economical understanding of the individual
- Role/Soul separation
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SLIDE 63 MY ROLES
- General Company Circle
- Facilitator
- Project Troubleshooter
- Salary Determiner
- Unprofitable Team Advisor
- Liip Zürich
- Lead Link
- Bazinga
- Business Developer
- Facilitator
- Financial Health Guardian
- Product Owner
- BizDev ZH
- BizDev Coach
- Networker / Pro-Actor
- Pitcher
- Sales
- Holacracy Implementation
- Holacracy helper
- Internal Coaching and Training
- Business Development Coach
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SLIDE 64 MY ROLES (I)
- General Company Circle
- Facilitator
- Project Troubleshooter
- Salary Determiner
- Unprofitable Team Advisor
- Liip Zürich
- Lead Link
- Bazinga
- Business Developer
- Facilitator
- Financial Health Guardian
- Product Owner
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SLIDE 65 MY ROLES (II)
- General Company Circle
- Office Zürich
- BizDev ZH
- BizDev Coach
- Networker / Pro-Actor
- Pitcher
- Sales
- Holacracy Implementation
- Holacracy Helper
- Internal Coaching and Training
- Business Development Coach
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THE BIG CHALLENGE
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RESPONSIBILITY FOR ROUGH DECISIONS
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WHAT DOES AN INDIVIDUAL NEED TO MAKE SUCH A DECISION
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- Self-esteem
- Fail-acceptance-culture
- Painful economical and social transparency
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SLIDE 74 Survey June 2016
- Would you like to continue with Holacracy?
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Drop it 10 % Don't know 26 % Continue 64 %
SLIDE 75 NEXT ACTIONS
- Individual metrics and transparency
- Social space: What is the next „Team“
- Role/Soul
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FINAL THOUGHT
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FUTURE HUMAN SKILL-SET
SLIDE 78 CODING - THE NEW MUST-HAVE TOOL
- Speech
- Read and write
- Code
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SLIDE 79 LIVE AND ORGANIZE WITHOUT BOSS
- If there is a command, there is most likely a following robot
- Skills needed in a self-organization today are skills needed
in the future live
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START TODAY
SLIDE 81 Agile Web Development Liip.ch –
Dublin 28.9.2016
THANK YOU
Questions?
Tonio Zemp Partner tonio.zemp@liip.ch
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