Scale the bottleneck

The “Stewardship” delegation will transform our community from the usual bottlenecks-of-command to independent, scalable nodes. It will create commitment because people are involved. Teams must deliver defined results, in return they get authority on a certain topic. Externally, breaking down our structure into such miniature nodes creates much more transparency, less confusion and hopefully activates the large amounts of passive resources we assumingly have dormant lying around.

TIMTAS

I have been told that a good structure, contracts and all that “legal glue” which will build our nodes together is like placing a plant in your living room and not watering it. At first it looks great, but it will be dead in a week (with a geek).

It sounds more experimental, but we also need to observe the team process. All teams go through phases from immature to mature, low output to high output - if they live that long! If this is true for geographically close teams, it must be even more true for teams in a distributed online context like ours.

I'm not completely certain how to do this, but I would like to explore how we can nurture the team process, as well as, coach team leaders, protect our motivation, and develop team leaders from team members. Lets depart from a route where we are all basically looked upon as worker bees. Lets also develop our “cyber-social” team skills on the way. We all have different personalities! Lets discover that as a complementary strength and not a source of conflict.

TYPO3 Is More Than A Software. Its a Jam Session that became a home and lifestyle for many. Respectful collaboration between all instruments will produce the unexpected result of “more”: 2+2=5. If human ressources work like designing, improving and monitoring our teams and processes in an online context turns you on, please contact me directly to offer your help.

Der Autor

Als TYPO3-Gründer und Präsident der TYPO3 Association leitet Kasper Skårhøj die Aufgaben der T3A zusammen mit anderen aktiven Mitgliedern. Unter http://typo3.org/podcast/ betreibt Kasper einen Video-Podcast rund um die TYPO3-Community, der TYPO3-Interessierten Einblicke in das Leben eines TYPO3-Entwicklers bietet. In seiner Freizeit raucht Kasper Zigarren und renoviert sein Haus. Er lebt mit seiner Frau Rie und seiner kleinen Tochter Amelie in Kopenhagen, Dänemark.