# Holacracy - Whatˋs The Fuss About? Part 1

DevFeed: [Holacracy - Whatˋs The Fuss About? Part 1](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/holacracy-what-s-the-fuss-about-part-1-35109.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://upday.github.io/blog/holacrcy-part-1/>)

Author: Peter Krauß (peter.krauss@upday.com)

Published: 2017-06-26T19:39:55Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Upday](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/upday.md>)

Topics: [Agile](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/agile.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [Self-organizing Team](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/self-organizing-team.md>)

Tags: [agile](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agile.md>), [culture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/culture.md>), [development-process](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development-process.md>), [efficiency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/efficiency.md>), [rules](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rules.md>)

## AI overview

This article examines Holacracy as an alternative to traditional hierarchical management. It describes principles such as distributed decision-making, defined responsibilities, and a constitution of organizational rules, while noting that Holacracy is not a universal solution.

## Source excerpt

What is the right approach to being as happy, productive and as innovative as possible? Well, I guess this question pops up in many companies and there are many books out there trying to give an answer to this question. However, I deeply believe there is not one answer "to bind them all". However some principles are helpful to create a healthy environment - this means for us updudes: you need independence to make your own decisions you need to know what you are responsible for you need to know what you can expect from others and what they are responsible/accountable for If all these conditions are met, the probability you finish your task with the highest quality and efficiency is high - and you may even have some fun in the meantime. One guide that everyone is talking about in the moment is Holacracy. So we decided to have a closer look. And what did we realize? It is not the "Silver Bullet" to solve all our problems! (What a surprise!) But Holacracy offers many tools we started using to come closer to our Garden of Eden. In the next sections I will describe some key aspects of Holacracy. Our experiences will be part of a follow-up post. The CTO is Dead - Long Live The Constitution The classical hierarchical system - one person is in charge and takes all the decisions - worked pretty well for a few hundred years. It assumes this person is able to take the best possible decisions because he or she foresees every requirement and fully understands the big picture. This might be true for assembly lines producing simple things. But it already becomes unlikely if you think about fully automated, robot-controlled assembly lines in car production. It is completely impossible in an agile and fast changing software development process. What could be the alternative? Anarchy, grass-roots democracy based decisions or maybe hiring an almighty genius who knows everything? But this would be the omniscient leader again... And how would you know he/she knows everything? The answer Ho