by Bernhard Bockelbrink | Jan 26, 2026 | S3 Practical Guide
Today’s update of the Practical Guide brings substantial changes to the foundations of S3, including several revisions that affect many concepts, patterns, and glossary terms, as well as significant changes to several patterns. Changes to Key Concepts...
by Lili David | Nov 5, 2024 | Case Studies, News
How Lexware Office Teams Hire Their Own Colleagues This article is based on an online session with the Sociocracy 3.0 community in March 2023, in which people from Lexware Office shared how their team recruiting process developed, what they learned and the questions...
by Bernhard Bockelbrink | Apr 18, 2024 | S3 Practical Guide
We’ve published a significant update to the Practical Guide, here’s a summary of what changed: General Changes Created a separate chapter for Organizational Structure, added Peach Organization, Service Organization, Fractal Organization and Double-Linked...
by Bernhard Bockelbrink | Apr 5, 2024 | S3 Practical Guide
We released a minor update to the Practical Guide today that includes more changes relating to Requirements: updated glossary: revised definitions for Backlog and Governance Backlog Revised Resolve Objections, Backlog, Governance Backlog and Governance Meeting revised...
by Bernhard Bockelbrink | Feb 8, 2024 | S3 Practical Guide
A new version of the Practical Guide is out, that introduces Requirement as a core concept distinct from the Driver. The changes in detail: introduced Requirement: added an explanation of Requirement to Drivers and Requirements added new...
by Lili David | Jan 9, 2024 | Case Studies, News
Oil Energy’s Experiment in Self-Governance What happens when a successful founder realizes the company he built has become too dependent on him? This article is based on an online session with the Sociocracy 3.0 community in April 2023, during which Oil Energy...
by Bernhard Bockelbrink | Apr 24, 2022 | S3 Practical Guide
We’ve made a round of smaller updates to the Practical Guide this year that we compile here: added detailed description and new illustrations to Test Arguments Qualify as Objections added detailed description and new illustrations to Resolve Objections added...
by Bernhard Bockelbrink | Jan 27, 2022 | S3 Practical Guide
A fresh update to the Practical Guide is now live, with a number of improvements worth knowing about: added Reasoned Decision-Making updated pattern categories: new category Evolving Organizations renamed Co-Creation and...
by Bernhard Bockelbrink | Sep 22, 2021 | S3 Practical Guide
Another round of small updates to the Practical Guide: revised text about Objections as well as the definitions of Objection and Concern renamed Open Domain to Open Team fixed some typos, minor revisions to the text You’ll find the latest version of the...
by Bernhard Bockelbrink | Jun 18, 2021 | S3 Practical Guide
We just released a major update to the Practical Guide: added a dedicated chapter for each of the Seven Principles revised the ten principles of the Common Sense Framework updated section about governance in the introduction added more text to explain how governance...
