Sync rounds
To ensure collaboration within our teams, the right people on the right level should regularly talk to each other. Therefore, team sync rounds are in place. Their primary focus is on ongoing product development and potential blockers. All other team-related topics are secondary but can be discussed in this format as well. The main artifacts of a sync round are the company backlog and the respective team backlogs deriving from it. Escalating blockers (and other important topics): if a sync round does not know who the right person is to escalate an issue to, it’s the organizational developer's obligation to escalate it to the next higher round.
Team sync rounds (TSR)
- Consists of PO/PM, organizational developer, and engineering manager
- Syncs about topics on epic level, team workflow, and drives team-internal collaboration
- Syncs on feasibility regarding the team’s quarterly plan, collaborates in planning a team’s next quarter
- Connects with and involves all necessary people (e.g. data, stakeholders, architects) to succeed in making their epics reality
Director sync round
- Consists of the directors of tech, product, people & finance and organizational development
- Has an eye on enforcing their mission of creating a barrier-free, resilient, delivery-focused, and stable company to ensure everyone can do their best
- Is generally ensuring that thomann.io is led properly, that there are no big silos or blackboxes, and that we take on the systemic concerns of the company
thomann.io leadership sync round
- Consists of the directors for product, tech, people & finance and org dev as well as the CDO/MD
- Syncs between GmbH and thomann.io via CDO
- Syncs between needs of the MD and thomann.io
- Is the escalation point for all blockers and issues that cannot be resolved by the other sync rounds