Define a People Strategy

[Under development]

Focus Areas of a Strategic People Function

  • Project Management - integrate business operations and employee management

  • Rituals - make sure that practices are neurodiverse and effective but not oppressive

  • Culture Development - create a climate that naturally strengthens interpersonal relationships

  • Employee Loyalty - make sure that employees feel appreciated, and their individual and collective achievements are recognized and rewarded

  • Change Management - make sure that people issues are account for in any implementation

  • Goal Setting - integrate each person’s personal goals the the organization’s current goals

Desired Agile 2-Related Behavioral Norms

  • Encouraging and fair forms of leadership

  • Thoughtful (not reckless) experimentation.

  • Measurement as a standard practice

  • Continuous transparency

  • Working incrementally but still end-to-end

  • Thinking end-to-end

  • Open door

  • Socratic discussion

  • Empowerment, accountability, and integrity

  • Affiliative, encouraging toward others

PeopleOps Functions

  1. Define a target culture

  2. Define ways of recognizing the right leaders

  3. Define incentives need to encourage the desired behaviors - not just outcomes

  4. Balance short term and long term way of applying and growing people, respectively

  5. Incentivize people to stay after you have invested in them

  6. Define floor space/office and other work arrangements that are most effective for the worker

  7. Enable people to work in a way that is most effective for them (not everyone is the same); people vary by,

    1. Specialists and generalists.

    2. Talkers and readers/writers.

    3. Experienced and newbies.

  8. Provide mentorship for individuals

  9. Provide coaching - for their work skills, and for leadership, including being able to work on a self-organizing team

  10. Feedback (Netflix eliminated annual review; but leads give immediate feedback)

  11. Defining career paths