In case anyone stumbles upon this: The discussion at
the governance issue Update role definitions and roles (Formerly “Compile complete list of roles for thriving team”) is very relevant to this. Quoting from there, the next steps are:
- Define clear priorities, find out what needs to happen now
That’s our goal over at Driver statement for better milestones and roadmap etc.
- Decide what to do about it, e.g. define roles + recruiting strategy
I wrote Proposal forming: Coming up with creative actions to address important drivers to introduce a way to do this collaboratively. (While reading it, translate meeting/agenda to forum/posting.)
- Do this as soon as possible. (This includes discussing as little as possible until you can get to the do-this step.)
The consent decision process is useful for this, as it produces a clear moment when an actual decision is reached that we can then implement. Plus since it’s inspired by sociocracy 3.0, it is very much designed to make decisions quickly, instead of making perfect decisions.
- Repeat and evolve.
This is what reviews (see the consent decision process) are for. They’re not working currently (the consent decision process should’ve been reviewed at the end of march, we didn’t do that), we should fix this soon. We should also consider using the peer review S3 pattern for evolving roles.
I think having this overall perspective in mind can help appreciating the importance of the individual pieces. In particular, after writing this, I think we should speed up our process here and there.