New stories about organizational design
Examine an approach to map out an existing organization and see how we created one from scratch in two hours.
What’s currently happening at Deep Work?
Operations
Here is a lens through which you can look at Deep Work as an organization in its current state:
The organization (Deep Work) consists of a range of departments, where people regularly work together (Deep Work Operations, Deep Work Studio, Deep Skills, etc.). Each of the departments produces collaborative projects, which happen on a regular basis. Each project consists of various functions, which make up all the work required to complete the project successfully.
Here is the original Miro board if you want to scroll around.You can see a full list of all the functions (tasks) with all properties in this spreadsheet.
We’ve updated our payment infrastructure, all payments will now be made at the end of the month through Deep Finance in DAI on mainnet.
DAO Consultancy
We facilitated a workshop in Barcelona at EthGathering which helps define departments, then projects, then functions and provide an organization with clarity over the internal operations. Miro template: https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVPHt9obk=/?share_link_id=713290221901
The ideal result should be something similar to the spreadsheet linked in Operations.The workshop at EthGathering impressed contributors and organizers.
Random strangers were supposed to define areas of interest (like organizational departments), suggestions for improvement (projects), a list of tasks, and map who is able to easily complete a task in the following hour.
They decided to focus on Networking and created a networking event, which they organized 2 hours later and 50 people showed up.
You can read Jesse‘s summary of the workshop here: https://jessems.com/emergent-coordination-of-labor-eth-gathering-2022/
Deep Work Studio
Two branding projects are currently active and one is scheduled to start mid-January. Check Deep Skills over the course of the next month for updates.
Deep Finance
First half of the Mintbase grant has been paid. Team is working on the implementation of on-chain project summaries.
Deep Skills
At EthGathering we found validation that Deep Skills can help design studios similar to Deep Work Studio keep track of and scale work while retaining quality.
We will now focus on market research in order to keep iterating on Deep Finance to bring it to where Deep Skills is now, but more focused on external organizations.
Deep Experiences
We are considering organizing Deep Experiences every month with the goal to give people opportunities to experiment with new workshops, activities or installations.
Primary location is Andrej’s apartment in Berlin, but it can be organized anywhere. Stay in the loop here.
Research & Development
After the workshop in Barcelona, people are interested in the Human Accelerator concept. If you are interested in continuing the work on it (exploring better no-code tools and building it into its own product) please let us know in Discord.
For any questions, please let us know in the comments below!