BOSSA Nova: A Synthesis of Management Concepts
This article is the fifth and final article in a planned series prepared from our new book: Company-Wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space, and Sociocracy. The first four articles summarized each of the BOSSA nova core values: Self Organization, Transparency, Constant Customer Focus, and Continuous Learning. This article summarizes the four values. We would like to turn it into a poster for hanging on an office wall:
Self-organization: Use accountable cross-functional teams that select themselves and follow their passion with responsibility.
Use accountable cross-functional teams
At different levels of abstraction
With a common aim (meaning clear purpose, measures, and targets) that
Govern through shared values and ideals not through rules.
They
Select themselves (for a meaningful duration),
Follow their passion with responsibility for whole and meaningful pieces of work, and
Hold retrospectives and align them across the enterprise to optimize the whole.
Transparency: Create transparency for all involved in two directions by providing information and lowering the barriers to those seeking information:
Provide information
On progress and delivery related to common aim;
Lower barriers
To information needed for
Making informed decisions
Self-regulation, innovation, and learning.
Constant Customer Focus: “Focus wide” on every aspect of the company: product & process, structure and strategy, and individual contributions and people.
Product & Process
Common aim as, for example, summarized in a minimum viable product;
Narratives capturing the ideas of personas in user stories;
Feedback on each production step as, for example, made transparent by a value stream analysis.
Structure & Strategy
Includes owners (shareholders),
Value centers & support service teams,
Rolling forecasting.
Individual contributions / people
Passion bounded by responsibility guides contribution,
Relative individual objectives not fixed ones.
Continuous Learning: Always learn and contribute to others’ learning, get feedback and adapt.
Always
Learning / contributing to others learning guides all work.
Get Feedback,
Retrospectives,
Role improvement reviews with peer feedback,
Individual objectives separated from bonuses.
And Adapt
Your plans as you develop (where development equals learning / training, teaching, researching in interaction with your aim.
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