“If you’re serious about enterprise agility, you owe it to yourself to explore the groundbreaking work by Jutta Eckstein and John Buck expressed in BOSSA nova. Take the assessment right now – and read their book to learn more.“
~ Comparative Agility
Take the survey at Comparative Agility or drop us a note to learn more about how far you got or how you can benefit even more from implementing company-wide agility. In this video, we’ll give an overview of what you can do with the assessment.
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BOSSA nova Probes – short & sweet, May 15, 2020, presented by the Agile Australia
– Webinar with Budapest Agile Meetup, Hungary on Probe your Organization: How you can implement a learning organization with BOSSA nova (February 4)
– A podcast by Agile Revolution, that is Tony Ponton and Craig Smith: Change it with the BOSSA nova 🙂
– Agile BOSSA nova: an “Unrecipie” for Thinking Outside the Box with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space & Sociocracy – Webinar hosted by Sociocracy for All
– BOSSA nova: Company-Wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space, and Sociocracy – Agile Middle East 2019, Dubai
– Company-Wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space, and Sociocracy – International Sociocracy Online Conference 2018
What is BOSSA nova?
BOSSA nova is…
… an approach for company-wide agility. It enables your company to be agile, nimble, and flexible by combining
- Beyond Budgeting (beyond command and control toward empowered and adaptive management),
- Open Space (leveraging the power of innovation from all employees),
- Sociocracy (flexible organizational structure that allows decentralized decision-making), and
- Agile (continuous learning via experiments and feedback).
Have a look in the book! Download a sample chapter...
So what?
BOSSA nova makes company-wide agility possible.
Agile just by itself is revolutionary in the software world. Here’s what McKinsey said about Agile in October 2017:
“Agile performance units excel most often at strategy and people-related practices, and they outperform all other units in stability and dynamism.”
Now what?
How can I Implement BOSSA nova?
Implement by probing, by doing experiments to understand the complexity of your organization’s Strategy, Structure, and Processes.
Strategy
Is trust cheaper?
How can we both self-organize and stay aligned?
Structure
Should we change our legal structure?
Can our board of directors include a CEO, a representative elected by staff, and a customer without interfering with the board’s work?
Processes
How include customer feedback in board meetings?
Can we organize transformative learning?
Find out more by meeting us
Here is where we’re presenting next:
– Jutta’s upcoming events.
– Training options from John by Governance Alive.
Sessions & trainings on related topics
– Events calendar for deep dives in Beyond Budgeting.
– Events calendar for Open Space by the Open Space World.
– Events calendar on agile (un)conferences & trainings announced by the Agile Alliance.
Learn more
Understand both – how you compare and how you can improve on your journey to company-wide agility. Take the survey at Comparative Agility or drop us a note to learn more about benchmarking your efforts and using a data-driven continuous improvement approach.
… from our presentation recordings
BOSSA nova: Company-wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space & Sociocracy presented by the Scrum Alliance, online (June 2, 2020)
Dance the BOSSA nova! How Beyond Budgeting, Open Space & Sociocracy enable Business Agility at AgileRock Conference 2019, Kyiv, Ukraine
Probe your Organization! How Complexity Supports implementing Business Agility, Business Agility 2019, Vienna
BOSSA nova: Company-wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space…, Agile Middle East 2019, Dubai
Agile BOSSA nova: an “Unrecipie” for Thinking Outside the Box… – Webinar hosted by Sociocracy for All
Why agile is not enough and why we need to expand …, Agile Alliance
Company-wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, …, International Sociocracy Online Conference
Sociocracy: Thinking Smarter Together, TEDxUMD Talk
- How Agile Is Your Whole Company? Use Data-based KPIs to Find Out! at the Vienna Scrum Meetup (Austria), online, September 6, 2021
- How to implement a Learning Organization with BOSSA nova” presentation & discussion with Meetup Agile Ontario, online, July 13, 2021
- How Agile Is Your Whole Company? Use Data-based KPIs to Find Out! (slides), presentation with Comparative Agility Meetup Group, online, April 8, 2021
- Probe your Organization – How you can implement a Learning Organization with BOSSA nova, presentation at Agile Lean International, Dublin, Ireland, October 29-30
- What can real cross-functional teams do to your product design? panel discussion with Maryse Meinen and Kenny Baas-Schwegler (from Virtual DDD), August 26, 2020
- Webcast on: BOSSA nova Probes – short & sweet, May 15, 2020, presented by the Agile Australia
- Webcast on: Supporting Agile Adoption: Innovation by Sharing. How Your Company can Benefit by Reaching Out, slides can be accessed here, April 29, 2020, presented by the Agile Alliance
- Webcast on: The hidden Power of Organizational Open Space, slides can be accessed here, August 16, 2019, presented by the Coaching Agile Journeys
- BOSSA nova: Company-wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space… at Bosnia Agile Days 2019, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Company-wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, …, Business Agility Conference 2018
- Beyond Agile: Preparing for Digitalization by Jutta Eckstein, Agile India 2018
- The Wizard of OSS by Jutta Eckstein, Agile India 2018
- With Sociocracy, HIerarchy becomes Agile, Agile India 2017
- Sociocracy – A Means for true Agile Organizations, Agile Singapore 2016
… from our podcasts
- Company-wide Agility with BOSSA nova, hosted by Henry Suryawirawan, Tech Lead Journal
- Achieve company-wide agility by becoming a BOSSA Nova, hosted by FourScouts
- Podcast on BOSSA nova, hosted by Simon Hilton and produced by Comparative Agility
- A podcast by Agile Revolution, that is Tony Ponton and Craig Smith: Change it with the BOSSA nova 🙂
- Great conversation with Richard Kasperowski on the 4 secrets of BOSSA nova for powerful, motivated teams
- Interview with Jay Hrcsko from AgileUprising on BOSSA nova
- Recording of: BOSSA nova: Beyond Agile – Preparing for Digitalization
- Company-wide Agility with BOSSA nova, podcast with Shane Hastie from InfoQ
- Frontmatter podcast with Leanpub
- Company-Wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting…, Agile Amped
… from our articles
- Published by the newly created We Hope magazine: The Planet is Silently Screaming.
- Published by the Cutter Consortium in the Cutter’s Edge. (Note: just sign up for your complimentary copy, no need to subscribe)
- How well are Agile retrospectives serving you? published by the Agile Alliance.
- Surprising Challenges When Trying Agile Company-Wide published by Cutter in the Cutter Business Technology Journal (Note: just sign up for your complimentary copy, no need to subscribe)
- Making Companies Nimble—From Software Agility to Business Agility – interview by Thomas Ronzon, Cessare Pautasso & Olaf Zimmermann and published by IEEE Software
- How can Agile support company-wide Agility published by Kanbanize
- The Wizard of OSS: Follow the Open Space and Sociocracy Road to Enterprise Agile Transformation published by Cutter in the Cutter Business Technology Journal (Note: just sign up for your complimentary copy, no need to subscribe)
- What Does Company-Wide Agility Imply? published by infoQ
- Q&A on the Book Company-Wide Agility With Beyond Budgeting, Open Space & Sociocracy published by infoQ
- Connect Agile Teams to Organizational Hierarchy: A Sociocratic Solution together with Pieter van der Meché, published by infoQ
- Planning and Controlling Complex Projects published by infoQ
… from insights of our colleagues
- Conversation of Maryse Meinen and Edwin Burger on BOSSA nova (in Dutch!)
- Panel on Business Agility at XP 2019. Article by Dennis Mancl in Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming – Workshops, published by Springer (open access).
- How these 3 Companies Manage Cost Without a Traditional Budget by Bjarte Bogsnes published by the Corporate Rebels
- Mayflower’s approach to salary negotiations by Björn Schotte, blog post on LinkedIn
- Why Budgeting Cripples Agile and Innovation by Steve Denning published by Forbes
- Why startups fumble at growth stage and how sociocracy could help build sustainable organisations by Amarendra Srivastava, published by YourStory
- The 5 Trademarks of Agile Organizations, by Wouter Aghina, Aaron De Smet, Gerald Lackey, Michael Lurie, and Monica Murarka published by and researched for McKinsey
- Decision Making Systems Matter by Hendrik Esser, Jens Coldewey & Pieter van der Meché, published by Agile Alliance
- On Understanding Software Agility – A Social Complexity Point of View by Joseph Pelrine
… from Probes of our Peers
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.