Terminology

The brewery bar next door to the VSHN Zürich office, famous for its traditional beer.

Monday is "Burger day" at VSHN

A term from Sociocracy 3.0 - Teams, Delegate Circles, Interest Groups are circles.

A Circle of people from all teams that make governance decisions for the domain they’re accountable for. We currently don’t use this patter for organization in VSHN.

A term from Sociocracy 3.0 - A distinct area of influence, activity and decision making within an organization. Domains for example describe what a team is accountable for within VSHN.

A term from Sociocracy 3.0 - A driver is a person’s or a group’s motive for responding to a specific situation, especially used in our Decision Making Process.

A fundamental term from Sociocracy 3.0 - The act of setting objectives (goals), and making and evolving decisions that guide people towards achieving them. Read more here.

See Interest Groups: A group of people coming from various teams solving a particular problem in the company. Interest Groups are orthogonal to teams.

Information Security Management System of the Domain Information Security Management.

A fundamental term from Sociocracy 3.0 - Doing the work and organizing day to day activities within the constraints defined through Governance. Read more here.

There’s an excellent Thai food take-away next to the VSHN Zürich office, that serves excellent satay chicken once a week. That day is called "Satay chicken day."

See Teams: The basic unit of organization in VSHN. Every person in VSHN belongs to one and only one team at any given time.

The name of the company, pronounced like the english word "vision:" ˈvɪʒn. It’s not an abbreviation, it’s just some characters put after each other, sounding like "vision."

Anyone aligned with the VSHN culture.

An employee of VSHN.

Our cool meeting room in Neugasse 6, 8th floor.

Going down the rabbit hole of task dependencies. Blogpost explanation, video example.

Casual group coffee drinking over video conference, mix of words "Zoom" (video conference) and "Znüni" (Swiss-german word for mid-morning snack). Twitter post from one of our Znoomis.