Sociocracy for Creating Better Products
summary
Explains how consent (good enough for now, safe enough to try) replaces consensus by asking for paramount objections that would risk the goal, not unanimous agreement; uses timed trials (three months), written nominations on sticky-note ballots, round-robin rationale and change rounds, facilitator proposal and the nominee answering last, plus thumbs/maturity votes for quick checks. Claims decisions often take minutes, elections surface unexpected candidates, objections get resolved by reallocating work, and the method scales to features, reps, or technical debt.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:20Decision Making
- 4:04Problems with Decision Making
- 6:28Decision Making Strategies
- 20:43Decisionmaking
- 25:25Discussion
- 31:55Selecting
- 38:34Summary
- 42:43Sociocracy
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