Building Blocks

Here you’ll find the Bloom source code.
Tailor it to what works best for your organization.

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Before you dive into the source code:

What is Bloom?

To be able to utilize the source code, it’s important to understand what Bloom constitutes. Read the basics to kick-start yourself.

Notion.so

To enable fast collaborative changes, Bloom’s source code is captured as a ‘Master Branch’ in the tool Notion.

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What is Notion?

Building Blocks?

In Bloom the ‘how we do things’ are captured in Building Blocks. Every block describes how something works. There are two types: Core and Practice Building Blocks.

Core Building Blocks make self-organization possible. It defines both the autonomy and limits to that autonomy. To self-organize, what is there to organize? The Core answers that question and makes explicit how that is done.

Practice Building Blocks define how things are done in the context of self-organization. For example how (Agile) budgetting is done, how vacancies get created and are filled, how promotions work and how alignment on scope & delivery is done across multiple teams. These are just a few examples. Practice Building Blocks are specific to your organizational context.

Everyone within the organization is able to review and adjust existing Building Blocks or to create new ones. Building the organization block by block.

Core Building Blocks

This is Bloom’s core, the foundation of agreements on what self-organization is. It’s a connecting set of Building Blocks to enable collective change. It’s meant to be copy-pasted and most importantly: adjusted to your organization.

Core Elements

The three Core Elements define our guiding principles of what we believe is the core of our self-organization. They are carefully chosen and limited, focusing on the evolutionary organization.

Holon

The Holon is the broadest circle, defining the organizational boundary. It defines where Bloom’s core and practices are in effect and thereby where they do not apply.

Capturing & Sharing Bloom

Similar to documents which need a hard drive for storage, Bloom needs to be captured somewhere. This Building Block defines which information about Bloom is stored and shared where.

Circles & Roles

Every collaborative group is called a ‘circle’. Each circle has roles and each role has an area of accountability. If you have a role, you have the autonomy to act upon that accountability. All circles together are the Holon.

Circle Review

Every circle has neighbours and stakeholders. To ensure feedback loops for the circles, ‘Circle Review’ is the constructive dialog between the circle and its surroundings.

Company

In a corporate setting a Holon inherits both resources as well as rulings and policies. The ‘General Company’ Building Block gives clarity on things that are decided for us, not by us.