Samara's Structural Elements

Irina - Not sure if we still want this page in, I added some content as a first draft with some basic content. Appreciate if anyone is up for adding, changing, editing, refining.

Tyler (4/18) - Took a very quick edit pass through, mainly just clarifying language. Think it's an interesting story to tell, so I'm happy to keep it in. 

The path to the current phase of Samara

It took us a while in Samara to define dethe work that needsneeded to be done and where to start in order to create a DHO. Some of the initial steps that proved to be helpful on the way:

• We start identifying some key results (KRs) we would like to get to
• One KR became one pod (small team of 3-5 people to work on a specific topic)

At a later stage we further evolved a new KRs map: 

• KRs were addedgrouped together inby some specific areasthemes, such as "Samara Game Guide", "Samara purpose, values and tools", "Samara Local Pilots", "Samara Offerings"
• Each member indicated thetheir commitment (%) for each KR
• Some of the KRs becomebecame a priority, with a lot of members committed to that specific work

As the work on each area advanced, it become clear that there arewere a lot of connections between KRs and that some separate conversations needneeded to takebe placewoven in the same time.together.  

• KR pods eventually transitioned to Primary Pods, with each primary pod working on a specific area,thematic witharea thecontaining workmultiple beingKRS
• These Primary Pods focused on 3 main areas: "Samara Soil / Game Guide", "Roots / Samara Purpose Practice Tools" and "Branches"
• Each Samara member became part of one Primary Pod, responsible for its success yet still able to contribute to non-Primary Pod efforts. 
• A Miro space for knowledge gardengardens was created for each Primary Pod

The Primary Pods withof aboutroughly 4 provedcontributors seemed to be a good structure for being able to coordinate between members, schedule callscalls, and do asynchronous work while keepingmaintaining connection close.to the collective intelligence. 

 The Path forward

Samara will further asses if and how the Primary Pods can serve it on its future path and how the structure will evolve to other working teams and more permanent circles in the future.