VSHN (Anchor Circle)
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Circle Lead |
| This is the Anchor Circle of our organization. It serves as the purpose of VSHN and further delegates all VSHN circles (roles and teams) within VSHN. Everything not governed by policies or delegated further remains in the responsibility of this circle. |
Purpose
Why does VSHN exist, what need in the market / to the world economy do we try to address?
We help the software industry to continually focus on their core business. We do this by being Technology Leaders in bringing New Solutions into Continuous Operations.
For this, we want to be a trusted partner that guides software developers through their operations, offers enabling products and solutions, and takes on operational responsibility for the most critical aspects, enabling them to focus on value creation.
See VSHN’s Identity for more details about the purpose.
Key Responsibilities
List the essential responsibilities of VSHN as a business and organization.
Additionally and more specifically to the fundamental business principles (Create value, attract customers, complete sales, deliver value, bring in enough money):
Develop and implement a company strategy
Be a compliant employer and business according to Swiss law (OR)
Have the right people
Organize as an aligned and healthy organization that serves the business purpose and our strategy
Stakeholders and Key Deliverables
Whom does this domain deliver value to, and what do they need from this role?
- Customers (Software Developers)
Self-Service Products that offer platform and needed services to run software
Custom Solutions that
build and deliver the missing pieces as platform, backends, and around software, from development to production operations
integrate our or 3rd party products to offer a full solution to the dev, test and production operation needs
- VSHNeers (Employees)
An appealing and enabling work environment where people can influence, drive and participate in the growth and success of VSHN, to deliver to our customers, but also thrive personally and grow.
- Partners & the Ecosystem
A recognized technology leader and pioneer that collaborates openly and pushes industry practices forward
A partner to collaborate in projects to bring solutions that would be too big to do alone
Products for reselling that accelerate their and our business jointly
- Owners of VSHN, represented by the Board
A healthy business and working organization that aligns to and grows according to the goals and interests of the shareholders.
Dependencies
Who is this role dependent on and what deliverables do they provide?
- Board
Owners/Board strategy and yearly objectives
Approval of strategic decisions
Contribution to defining, tracking and reviewing Company Strategy
- Business Areas (via their Product Manager)
Drive that aligned strategy and business priorities get implemented, report progress
Business insights and key metrics
External Constraints
What are important external constraints to the circle’s autonomy and influence?
VSHN values shared and situational leadership, distributed management and decision-making power lying with reasoned arguments not people in power.
To implement the company strategy, the needed work (operations) and decision-making (governance and one-time decisions) are to be broken down and distributed through delegation (and review) further within the organization. Decision-making should happen as close as possible to value creation (for example with customer-facing roles and teams).
Policies and Agreements within VSHN are binding until revised.
Any circle (team/role) within the organization serves its super-circle (ultimately VSHN - this domain).