Agile Lab’s working methodology is based on the principles of self management.
Each person can count on the full support of the whole team, but at the same time everyone is encouraged to push themself to reach ambitions and goals, recognised and rewarded in an extremely transparent manner.
In other words, each professional working at Agile Lab is implicitly trusted by the company to fulfill their own role, to complete the agreed task, to produce quality work and find effective solutions to overcome problems and obstacles. This autonomy, as opposed to a hierarchical model, translates into an enormous improvement in efficiency and removal of organisational bottlenecks.
To reap the benefits in terms of flexibility and efficiency of self management, while bringing cohesion to the whole team and a uniformity of vision and intent, a very effective organisational scheme and methodology has been created in cooperation with Leapfrog. It is based on the Holacracy principles, a method of decentralized management and organizational governance, or a holarchy of self-organizing teams rather than a management hierarchy.
In Agile Lab’s implementation of Holacracy, this means the creation of a space (roles and circles, pictured below) with very well-defined responsibilities and complete decision-making delegation. Moreover, the very process through which these roles and circles are created is inclusive and integrated: all members of a circle participate in the definition of their own roles with the sole purpose of pursuing a common goal.
