Governance Crew

Crew Type

Governance Crew

The Governance Crew is the management team.

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.

Rules / Constraints

  • There is exactly one Governance Crew in a Base.

  • The Governance Crew defines the purpose of the Base.

  • The Governance Crew's job is to ensure the motivation of workers.

  • The Governance Crew is accountable to external stakeholders.

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