DrupalCon Dublin 2016: Self managing organizations, Teal and Holacracy in practice - one year later
Channel: Drupal Association
Date: 2016-09-29

At Drupalcon Barcelona Lukas Smith an I, Tonio Zemp, presented the way of the company Liip AG (150 people all in Switzerland) into the self managed and "Teal" world (Self-Managing Organizations: Teal is the new Orange).

We described back then that we figured out beeing a nearly management-less company and are eager to reach a Teal evolution. At the end of the talk we discussed the pro`s and con`s of evolving our own organizational model or take something "of the shelf", namely Holacracy.

We received a lot of great feedback and quite some buzz around that talk.

Now, nearly a year later a lot of things happened. Did go with Holacracy, we officially removed the management positions, we had great successes and great frustrations. We want to be open and share a honest picture of our experience the past year.

We think that these insights will proof very helpful for agencies facing the "Going for Growth" topic.

To reach a broder audience the talk will recap what happened before Drupalcon Barcelona, and give a short introduction into the topic of self managing organizations before the deepdive into our experience of the past year.

So a "beginner" will get at least a first eye-opening experience and some entertainment, an "intermediate" (already read about the topic, maybe attended the talk a year ago) gets encouraged to go this way while an "expert" (working on the same topic) gets valuable insight in real world problems and solutions.