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<h1 id="teams-hours-and-the-office"><a class="header" href="#teams-hours-and-the-office">Teams, Hours, and the Office</a></h1>
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<li><a href="#teams-hours-and-the-office">Teams, Hours, and the Office</a>
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<li><a href="#cabals">Cabals</a></li>
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<li><a href="#team-leads">Team leads</a></li>
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<li><a href="#structure-happens">Structure happens</a></li>
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<li><a href="#hours">Hours</a></li>
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<li><a href="#headquarters--office">HeadQuarters / "Office"</a></li>
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<h2 id="cabals"><a class="header" href="#cabals">Cabals</a></h2>
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<p>Cabals are really just multidisciplinary project/product teams. </p>
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<p>We’ve self- organized into these largely temporary groups since the early days of TSYS Group. </p>
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<p>They exist to get a product or large feature shipped. Like any other group or effort at the organization, they form organically. </p>
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<p>Members decide to join the group based on their own belief that the group’s work is important enough for them to work on.</p>
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<h2 id="team-leads"><a class="header" href="#team-leads">Team leads</a></h2>
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<p>Often, someone (ideally two or three someones) will emerge as the “lead” for a project. This member’s role is not a traditional managerial one.
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Most often, they’re primarily a clearinghouse of information. They’re keeping the whole project in their head at once so that other membes can use them as a
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resource to check decisions against. The leads serve the team, while acting as centers for the teams.</p>
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<p>The lead is responsible for keeping the documentation up to date. Failure to update documentation on a constant basis is a violation of the operating agreement
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and grounds for immediate termination with prejudice and without review/appeal. No one may become a holder of power by hording knowledge.</p>
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<h2 id="structure-happens"><a class="header" href="#structure-happens">Structure happens</a></h2>
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<p>Project teams often have an internal structure that forms temporarily to suit the group’s needs. Although members at TSYS Group don’t have fixed job descriptions or limitations on
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the scope of their responsibility, they can and often do have clarity around the definition of their mission on any given day. </p>
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<p>They, along with their peers, effectively create a mission objective description that fits the group’s goals. That description changes as requirements change, but the temporary
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structure provides a shared understanding of what to expect from each other while the objective is being achievied. </p>
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<p>If someone moves to a different group or a team shifts its priorities, each person can take on a completely different role according to the new requirements.</p>
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<p>TSYS Group is not averse to all organizational structure—it crops up in many forms all the time, temporarily. But problems show up when hierarchy or codified divisions of
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labor either haven’t been created by the group’s members or when those structures persist for long periods of time.</p>
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<p>We believe those structures inevitably begin to serve their own needs rather than those of TSYS Group’s customers. The hierarchy will begin to reinforce its own structure by hiring
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people who fit its shape, adding people to fill subordinate support roles. Its members are also incentivize to engage in rent-seeking behaviors that take advantage of the power
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structure rather than focusing on simply delivering value to customers.</p>
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<h2 id="hours"><a class="header" href="#hours">Hours</a></h2>
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<p>While members occasionally choose to push themselves to work some extra hours at times when something big is going out the door, for the most part working overtime for
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extended periods indicates a fundamental failure in planning or communication. If this happens at TSYS Group, it’s a sign that something needs to be reevaluated and corrected. </p>
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<p>If you’re looking around wondering why members aren’t in “crunch mode,” the answer’s pretty simple. The thing we work hardest at is onboarding good members, so we want them to
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stick around and have a good balance between work and family and the rest of the important stuff in life.</p>
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<p>If you find yourself working long hours, or just generally feel like that balance is out of whack, be sure to raise the issue with whomever you feel would help.</p>
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<h2 id="headquarters--office"><a class="header" href="#headquarters--office">HeadQuarters / "Office"</a></h2>
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<p>TSYS Group is head quartered out of the founders residence in the central texas region. It hosts it's data in that residence and receives all company mail. </p>
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<p>It maintains a small shop for the hardware manufacturing aspects of the business. </p>
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<p>All meetings are held via Discord (or other VTC platforms if external stakeholders wish to utilize them). Even when members are co-working, they use Gitea issues -> Discourse -> Discord (in descending order of preference and situation dependent) to communicate.</p>
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<p>TSYS Group is truly distributed, strives to onboard members all over the world as a matter of course.</p>
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