House
Turf Type
A House is a large team that offers a sense of belonging to its members, like a club or fellowship.
Turf Types: Team of Teams • House • Product Area • Business Unit
Purpose
A House is a Turf type that offers a sense of belonging to its members, like a club or fellowship. Working with Houses enables the Base to grow larger because the critical concepts of trust, respect, and psychological safety (that don’t scale well) are delegated to the individual Houses. The four houses of Hogwarts in the Harry Potter books (Gryffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw, and Hufflepuff) exemplify this concept.
Notes
It is possible for a Base to have Turfs of different types, and they may also overlap or contain each other in various creative ways. In each of these types, Crews are usually contained within one Turf, although it is easy to imagine examples where Crews might be shared across several Turfs.
We prefer to keep traditional management in the Governance Crew and outside of Turfs. When a Base grows so large that the number of people in it cannot be managed anymore by one Governance Crew, the best step is to split the Base (horizontally). We do not add a management layer inside the Base (vertically).
Rules / Constraints
We have not yet defined any rules or constraints.
“Uncharted territory is a good place to be in.”
(Source: Bo Burnham)