News and Updates

April 2024

• revised and updated most of the illustrations as we made the latest updates to the practical guide. In many cases, the Requirement was added to illustrations, other notable revisions include
  • agreements/resolve-objections-process
  • agreements/test-arguments-process
  • framework/pattern-map
  • process/describe-organizational-drivers
  • templates/domain-description-template
• added
  • process/determine-requirement
  • process/nvt
  • process/respond-navigate-describe-determine
  • process/respond-to-org-drivers
• renamed
  • templates/need-card to requirement-card
  • driver-domain/tension-driver-response to tension-driver-requirement-response
  • evolution/agreement-lifecycle to ` evolve-agreement`
  • process/navigate-describe-respond to navigate-describe-respond-determine
• removed most illustrations that are not used in the practical guide
  • agreements/reasoned-decision-making-alt
  • circle/enter-leave-circle
  • circle/transparent-salary
  • driver-domain/driver
  • driver-domain/driver-response-full
  • evolution/driver-domain-selection-development
  • evolution/driver-role-selection-development
  • evolution/kaizen
  • evolution/peer-development-process
  • framework/s3-pattern-groups
  • illustrations/balance-autonomy-collaboration
  • illustrations/balance-equivalence-effectiveness
  • illustrations/logbook
  • templates/role-description-template

April 2022

• renamed agreements/qualify-objection-process to agreements/test-arguments-process
• added agreements/test-arguments
• updated the following illustrations to align with the extended pattern descriptions:illustrations
  • agreements/resolve-objections
  • agreements/reasoned-decision-making-table
  • agreements/resolve-objections-process
  • agreements/test-arguments-facilitation-guide
  • agreements/test-arguments-process

March 2022

• revised agreements/reasoned-decision-making-table
• updated cse/01 Introduction Slide: added reciprocity

February 2022

• added illustrations for reasoned decision-making:
  • agreements/added reasoned-decision-making-alt
  • agreements/reasoned-decision-making-table
  • agreements/reasoned-decision-making
• updated agreements/consent-decision-making to align with the updated description of the process
• updated the following illustrations to align with the style of the recent process illustrations
  • agreements/evaluate-agreements
  • agreements/proposal-forming
  • agreements/resolve-objections
  • agreements/selection
  • evolution/agreement-lifecycle
  • evolution/agreement-lifecycle-long
  • evolution/development-process
  • evolution/driver-domain-selection-development
  • evolution/driver-role-selection-development
  • evolution/experiments
  • evolution/peer-development-process
  • meetings/governance-meeting
  • meetings/coordination-meeting
  • meetings/evaluate interactions
  • process/adapt-pattern-to-context
  • process/driver-mapping
  • process/opening-salaries
  • process/peer-review

January 23, 2022

• updated framework/s3-pattern-groups and framework/pattern-map with new pattern categories
• added Reasoned Decision Making to framework/pattern-map

August 15, 2021

• renamed Open Domain to Open Team
• updated pattern map

June 06, 2021

• revised text of the following CSF illustrations:
  • csf/03 Orientation Slide
  • csf/06 Transformation Slide
  • csf/07 All principles
  • csf/07a All principles (large)

May 15, 2021

• new template illustration for Clarify and Develop Domains
• updated pattern map
• added CSF illustrations

February 2021

• renamed “”
• process/driver-mapping revised text

May 8, 2020

• updated all English illustrations to new color scheme
• aligned design of all English illustrations

May 1, 2020

• added new pattern map that exports from artboards
• added illustrations that display patterns for individuals, ,teams, managers and executive teams
• revised all illustrations in workflow-and-value for better readability
• removed ~40 illustrations that are no longer used in the practical guide so translation will be simpler from English, German and French source files
• updated all flowcharts to new design

April 26, 2020

• revised and updated colors for better readability:
  • evolution/domain-driver-strategy-exeriments
  • agreements/evaluate-agreements
  • driver-domain/driver-response-full
• added templates/need-card
• updated pattern names in
  • framework/pattern-map
  • agreements/qualify-objection-process
  • pattern-groups/group-1 and pattern-groups/group-3
• revised text:
  • templates/agreement-template
  • templates/proposal-template
  • templates/domain-template
• updated colors for better readability:
  • agreements/resolve-objections
  • driver-domain/driver
  • driver-domain/tension-driver-response
  • driver-domain/driver-response
  • driver-domain/driver-short
  • evolution/agreement-lifecycle-long
  • evolution/agreement-lifecycle
  • evolution/development-process
  • evolution/driver-agreement-improvement
  • evolution/driver-domain-selection-development
  • evolution/driver-role-selection-development
  • evolution/kaizen-values
  • evolution/kaizen
  • evolution/peer-development-process
  • framework/s3-pattern-groups-alt
  • framework/s3-pattern-groups

Feb 24, 2020

• updated templates/domain-template
• added templates
• added process/driver mapping flowchart
• replaced “practical guide” with “social technology” in pattern map

May 10, 2019

• German translation for agreements/qualify-objection-process
• aligned pattern map and framework/principles with latest German translations

May 01, 2019

• new illustration: agreements/qualify-objection-process
• retouched agreements/resolve-objections-process
• retouched agreements/role-selection

March 12, 2019

• aligned several German translations for pattern names

September 21, 2018

• replaced “group” with “team”
• renamed a pattern group
• updated illustrations for linking and double linking
• added links to pattern map
• removed term “driver statement” from process illustration
• updated templates for domain description

August 17, 2018

• updated workflow-and-value/align-flow and workflow-and-value/types-of-flow to show flow of value and information in relation to a customer
• retouched workflow-and-value/card and workflow-and-value/simple-process
• updated structural-patterns/fractal-organization to include 3rd tier and explain constituents
• updated pattern-groups/group-3 and framework/pattern-map to include new pattern names
• updated process/navigate-describe-respond: added feedback loop to response to driver

June 17, 2018

A major update with all the changes made for the upcoming release of “S3 - A Practical Guide”.

• exported all illustrations with OmniGraffle 7.2 (slight changes in rendering of fonts and edges)
• updated driver-domain/drivers to reflect the four aspects of drivers
• removed process/navigate-via-tension-slides and process/navigate-via-tension
• added process/navigate-describe-respond, which contains Navigate Via Tension, Respond to Organizational Drivers and Describe Organizational Drivers (which also has a separate illustration: process/describe-organizational-drivers )
• updated process/resolve-objections and process/resolve-objections-process for more clarity
• updated templates/agreement-template and templates/proposal-template: aligned both templates with each other
• added legend to workflow-and-value/align-flow and workflow-and-value/types-of-flow
• updated framework/pattern-map and pattern-groups with new patterns and renamed patterns from the June update of the practical guide
• updated meetings/evaluate-interactions and meetings/coordination-meeting
• retouched driver-domain/driver-response-full
• renamed illustrations to simpler and/or more descriptive names (if you use them in Markdown files, you can use mdimg in mdtools to find out what you need to update):
  • agreements/cdm-condensed to agreements/consent-decision-making
  • agreements/proposal-forming-medium to agreements/proposal-forming
  • driver-domain/driver-alt to driver-domain/driver-short
  • driver-domain/domain-primray-sub to driver-domain/drivers-and-domains
  • process/navigate-via-tension-cheatsheet to process/navigate-describe-respond

June 8, 2018

• added cheatsheet for Navigate Via Tension and Describe Drivers English/German

June 4, 2018

• fixed cut-off German text in the illustration for macro and meta structures

Apr 20, 2018

• set up micro site at https://illustrations.sociocracy30.org
• added downloads as zip files

Jan 18, 2018

• fully aligned German illustrations with translated version of S3 - A Practical Guide

Nov 19, 2017

• added first pass of German translations from Crowdin

Sep 27, 2017

• small fixes to English illustrations

Jul 10, 2017

• changed fonts in illustrations to Ubuntu and Open Sans

Oct 27, 2017

• updated English illustrations from latest release of S3 - A Practical Guide

Nov 4, 2016

• released first German translation of the illustrations
• small updates to English illustrations

Aug 26, 2016

• 10 new images
• title slides for the pattern groups
• a few renames
• fixes and updates to existing pictures

Jan 17, 2016

Released full set of English illustrations used in “S3 - All Patterns Explained” and the S3 Website