Holacracy Community of Practice Archive

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Tactical Meeting: how to better facilitate "Project ...

07/13/2016

Hi, we have been running weekly 1-hr-long Tac meetings in the team for 3 months now. It's going very well in general and everyone is happy that we could cover quite many issues in 1hr. Last time, I noticed a few things that I'm not so sure of and would like to get some ideas. 1. In "Project Updat...

Project Management tool and its connection to Projec...

07/25/2016

In our circle, we have been using Trello to track our projects. We are trying to develop some good practices together such as asking role fillers to define each project clearly with outcome, expected completion dates, labeling priorities. We have also been referring to Trello in the Project Updat...

Why is it called 'Glassfrog'

08/02/2016

Hi, a team member just shared this confusion with me, why is this system called 'glassfrog'? What is glass, or frog got to do with it? Then of course I googled, and found this The glass frogs (or glassfrogs ) are frogs of the amphibian family Centrolenidae ( order Anura ). While the general backg...

How do you configure LEGAL aspects of your company i...

08/20/2016

Hi, Our team (based in Hong Kong) is committed to organizing ourselves using Holacracy. When we create legal documents we realize that often it is necessary to go through a reinterpretation of the legality. For example: *1.* Agreements (incl. contacts) are embedded in and reconciled with our Cons...

About Gov Meeting: only 1 reaction for each person? ...

08/29/2016

Hi, I just finished facilitating a Governance meeting. It well very well in general – we were able to deal with 8 agenda items successfully in a bit over one hour. But at reflection I have these questions that I would like to have some advice on: 1. About reaction round, the Constitution was clea...

How do you handle the the traditional Project Manage...

10/24/2016

Hi... our circle focuses on a pretty complex project involving building a plant/factory turning tons of wastes into resources. When it comes to project management, it is complex too with many work streams that are highly inter-dependent. In the beginning, we had a role called "Project Manager" to...

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Tactical meetings - 'no update' project updates

06/15/2016

We had the experience that some projects do not have update for quite a while. Then we just suggest to put those projects on hold - so that we don't ask about it every time. Then if it stays so for long, then we examine if that is still aligned with our strategy, if not, then we abandon that proj...

Call for Feedback/Ideas - Updating the Official Holacracy Meeting Cards!!!

07/25/2016

Chris Cowan posted:The new process cards are done! I'll upload them in a separate thread. :0)Hi Chris, where can I find the new cards?Thanks!

Project Management tool and its connection to Project Updates in Tactical Mee...

07/26/2016

Thanks Margaux for your detailed response - it surely help me clarify and know what to do next and how to communicate this to my team members.I will recommend my team to use Trello for tracking projects, and we will go to Trello for "Project Update". Switching between Glassfrog and Trello shouldn...