The open organization community at Opensource.com is preparing a new volume in the Open Organization book series.
This volume will highlight the intersection of issues related to organizational culture, open organizational models, and agility-focused management paradigms in IT shops (e.g., scrum, agile, DevOps, etc.). The book should serve as a useful resource for anyone interested in the ways that buidling team cultures on open principles can help people address digital transformation and rethink their IT organizations.
The open organization community has contributed markedly to ongoing conversations about the ways that open principles will continue to transform traditional IT strategies, organizations, and practices. We can collect our IT-focused content—and solicit additional content that expands on it—into a downloadable and print-on-demand resource. As much as possible, we'll develop it using open methods and open tools. We do believe it might be the first book created according to the Open Decision Framework!
Our vision is a volume divided into two principal sections: One focused on "culture" and one focused on "skills." Each section would itself feature a custom-written introduction commissioned specifically for the book, as well as a specialized set of discussion questions, key takeaways, and management tips for anyone wishing to treat the volume like a handbook during change management efforts.
We are looking for authors and subject matter experts to write the outstanding chapters or connect us with others who might be a great fit.
You can contribute by:
- Reviewing the book's table of contents and pitching a contribution
- Pointing potential authors to this project
- Addressing an outstanding issue flagged in this repository
- Reviewing page proofs in this repository and recording errors
- Reviewing page proofs in this repository and developing end-of-chapter discussion questions and summary statements
- Suggesting a title for the book
March 22—Announce project publicly
March 28—Finalized table of content and author roster published
March 30—Final book outline complete
April 7—All chapter drafts due to Opensource.com team
April 15—Drafts returned to authors for revision
May 1—Final copy editing and production (layout/design) begins
May 25—Project soft launch
June 1—Project release