Company-wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space & Sociocracy: Survive & Thrive on Disruption

by Jutta Eckstein, John Buck

Overview

Today, companies are expected to be flexible and both rapidly responsive and resilient to change, which basically asks them to be agile. By combining Beyond Budgeting,Open Space, Sociocracy, and Agile, this book provides a practical guide for companies that want to be agile company-wide.

Notes to the 2nd edition:

This second edition reflects such updates as: the new Agile Fluency Model, the renaming / rebranding of Statoil to Equinor, and some small additions to complexity. We also enhanced the description of Organizational Open Space and explain how it differs from Liberating Structures.

Enjoy insights in the book shared by Jez Humble, Diana Larsen, James Shore, Johanna Rothman, and Bjarte Bogsnes. Find out what Spotify, ING, Ericsson, and Walmart say in the book.

Quotes from early readers:

• "[This is] a very important book. My hopes are that it will be the missing link between agile for teams and the flexible, adaptive and humane organisations we want to build. It's a great book. Thanks for writing it!" ~Sandy Mamoli, author of Creating Great Teams
• "Just as Spotify has worked hard to make all aspects of product development align well and work together - I see Jutta and John in this book exploring methods and processes that will work very well across the whole company." ~ Anders Ivarsson, Spotify
• "I love how those practices [are] integrated and summarized into actionable recommendations." ~ Yves Lin, Titansoft
• "Really wonderful balance of structure and space, rigor and creativity, that you're suggesting." ~ Michael Herman, Openspaceworld.org
• "Company-wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space and Sociocracy [...] makes an important case for companies to regard trust and autonomy the norm, rather than a privilege. [...] Overall a great overview of how leaders can reimagine the way power is distributed within their companies." ~ Aimee Groth, Author of The Kingdom of Happiness: Inside Tony Hsieh's Zapponian Utopia

This book invites you to take a new perspective that addresses the challenges of doing business in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940163946921
Publisher:	Jutta Eckstein
Publication date:	01/20/2020
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	25 MB
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About the Author

Jutta Eckstein works as an independent coach, consultant, trainer, author and speaker. She has helped many teams and organizations worldwide to make agile transitions. She is experienced in applying agile processes within medium-sized to large, distributed mission-critical projects and has written about her experiences. She holds a M.A. Business Coaching & Change Management, a Dipl.Eng. Product-Engineering, and a B.A. in Education.

She is a member of the Agile Alliance (having served on the board of directors from 2003-2007) and a member of the program committee of many different American, Asian and European conferences, where she has also presented her work.

John Buck is President of GovernanceAlive LLC, an international training and consulting organization headquartered Washington, DC, USA. The firm also offers mediation and meeting facilitation services. John has taught many training workshops on sociocracy and led many implementation projects for a variety of organizations, more recently expanding to include BOSSA nova. He serves on the boards of various other organizations. His research and development is ongoing. For example, he is working with Fujitsu's advanced software lab to develop Weaver, software that helps meetings go better - in-person, online, and asynchronous.

John Buck has extensive management experience with government and corporations, including managing large information technology projects. His clients span the globe and include plastics manufacturers, schools, colleges and universities, long-term care facilities, co-housing groups, NGOs, food producers, and software companies. He holds an MA in Quantitative Sociology from The George Washington University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I Gathering the Band

1. Today’s Challenges

1.1 Challenges For Companies

1.2 Challenges With Expanding Agile

1.3 Summary of the Overall Challenge

2. Tuning the Instruments

2.1 Developments We Considered

2.2 Tools For Analysis

2.3 Considered But Didn’t Use

2.4 Converging Streams

Beyond Budgeting / Open Space / Sociocracy / Agile

2.5 Summary

II Improvising the Tune

3. Self-organization

3.1 Challenges for Self-Organization

3.2 Perspectives from the Different Streams

Beyond Budgeting / Open Space / Sociocracy / Agile

3.3 Additional Perspectives

3.4 The New Synthesis - Self-Organization

4. Transparency

4.1 Challenges with Implementing Transparency

4.2 Perspectives from the Different Streams

Beyond Budgeting / Open Space / Sociocracy / Agile

4.3 The New Synthesis - Transparency

5. Constant Customer Focus

5.1 Challenges with Establishing Company-wide Customer Focus

5.2 Perspectives from the Different Streams

Beyond Budgeting / Open Space / Sociocracy / Agile

5.3 The New Synthesis - Constant Customer Focus

6. Continuous Learning

6.1 Challenges for Continuous Learning

6.2 Perspectives from the Different Streams

Beyond Budgeting / Open Space / Sociocracy / Agile

6.3 Additional Perspectives

6.4 The New Synthesis - Continuous Learning

7. A New Tune

7.1 A New Organigram

7.2 Summary: The Four Values As Instruments in the Band

7.3 Final Thought

III Shall We Dance?

8. Strategy

8.1 Trust

8.2 Alignment

8.3 Equivalence

8.4 Experimentation

8.5 Reflection

9. Structure

9.1 Cross-Functional Teams

9.2 Relationship with Customer

9.3 Feedback

9.4 Reflection

10. Process

10.1 Meeting Techniques

10.2 Understanding Your Customer

10.3 Production

10.4 Feedback

10.5 Innovation

10.6 Reflection

11. Dance Around the Clock

11.1 Revisiting the Challenges from Chapter 1

11.2 How to use the probes

11.3 Now Roll Your Own

11.4 Strengthening Fluency

IV Party Time

The Four Values

Connected Perspective

Societal Awareness

Summary

Bibliography

Appendix

Beyond Budgeting Principles / Open Space Principles / Sociocracy Principles / Agile Principles

About Jutta Eckstein

About John Buck

Other Books by the Authors

Index

Editorial Reviews

• “[This is] a very important book. My hopes are that it will be the missing link between agile for teams and the flexible, adaptive and humane organisations we want to build. It’s a great book. Thanks for writing it!” ~Sandy Mamoli, author of Creating Great Teams
• “Just as Spotify has worked hard to make all aspects of product development align well and work together - I see Jutta and John in this book exploring methods and processes that will work very well across the whole company.” ~ Anders Ivarsson, Spotify
• “I love how those practices [are] integrated and summarized into actionable recommendations.” ~ Yves Lin, Titansoft
• “Really wonderful balance of structure and space, rigor and creativity, that you're suggesting.” ~ Michael Herman, Openspaceworld.org
• “Company-wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space and Sociocracy [...] makes an important case for companies to regard trust and autonomy the norm, rather than a privilege. [...] Overall a great overview of how leaders can reimagine the way power is distributed within their companies.” ~ Aimee Groth, Author of The Kingdom of Happiness: Inside Tony Hsieh’s Zapponian Utopia

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