Governance Crew
Crew Type
The Governance Crew is the management team.
Crew Types: Governance Crew • Value Stream Crew • Facilitation Crew • Capability Crew • Platform Crew • Experience Crew • Partnership Crew
Purpose
The Governance Crew is the management team. It consists of several Chiefs who are the managers of everyone in the Base. In the case of a Base being one entire company, the Governance Crew is the executive team.
One responsibility of the Governance Crew is leadership: they set the vision and purpose for the Base; they decide on the business model and the domain; they discuss and plot the strategy, and they do their very best to make sure that all employees enjoy a feeling of belonging and recognition.
The other responsibility of the Governance Crew is, obviously, governance: the Chiefs set constraints on self-organization in the Base. They might decide which Crews and Forums exist, which people can lead them as Captains and Chairs, which Value Stream Crews are synced with a joint cadence, etc.
Notes
The responsibilities of the Governance Crew also include discussions about the type of the Base: Fully Integrated, Strongly Aligned, Loosely Aligned, or Fully Segregated. The Base type has significant consequences for the kind of leadership and governance that is needed.
The Governance Crew is usually the only one signing contracts with employees, customers, vendors, and partners. Typically, only the Chiefs can legally bind the business in agreements with other parties.
To keep a high level of agility and versatility, it is in the interest of the Base that the Governance Crew delegates as much as possible. That's why we prefer to use the word governance for this team rather than leadership or management. The Governance Crew sets the rules of the game. But the game is played by everyone else in the Base.
“Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.”
(Source: Virginia Burden)
Improving the company organization design of epharma by using unFIX - structure with 18 bases, organized one unFIX congress and five domains.