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Rebecca Fernandez is a Principal Program Manager at Red Hat, leading projects to help the company scale its open culture. She's an Open Organization Ambassador, contributed to The Open Organization book, and maintains the Open Decision Framework. She is interested in the intersection of open source principles and practices, and how they can transform organizations for the better.
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Sometimes I think it's about dialing up and down each type of "open" to get the right mix for the particular situation... so for example, sometimes you'll want to turn transparency and sharing way up, say, by asking all communication to happen on publicly visible places... and that could help offset having to dial down collaboration a bit (say, when you have thousands of people who want to collaborate but there are many different equally good paths you could take, and it's mostly a matter of choosing one and getting the work done).
There may be other ways to think about "open" too, like receptiveness to other ideas, or flexibility throughout the process.
Hi Sacha,
Thanks for the feedback. :) We opted to release the framework as close to our internal Red Hat version as possible, and leave it up to anyone who remixes or forks it to make their own changes, including replacing our name with theirs or adding their own cultural nuances to the steps. Hope that helps!