Breaking Barriers: A Strategic Framework for Collaborative Governance in Software
summary
A Cardano case shows a people-first governance build: 22,000 stakeholders across a $34B ecosystem, a half‑billion dollar treasury, and a year of iterative design around SIP‑1694 (reworked as SIP‑694). Start with 40 facilitated workshop delegates, use professional facilitators and a digital whiteboard, export 50+ local workshops (1,000 attendees, 24 countries), translate inputs, reconvene 80 delegates, and converge on a repeatable model. Concrete artifacts: published proposals, governance.md, communication.md, acknowledgement lists, and staged change steps (awareness → desire → knowledge → ability → reinforcement).
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction and background
- 1:16Governance beyond policies and processes
- 2:39Case study Cardano governance
- 4:28Stakeholder alignment workshop
- 6:13Transparent communication in governance
- 7:57Prioritizing divergent thought
- 9:01Converging on a governance model
- 10:48Acknowledging contributors
- 11:54Decision-making principles and values
- 13:18Documentation for governance
- 14:20Supporting people through change
- 17:14Key takeaways and closing
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