Create your EDGY Tool
A huge number of tools are available today to help design and create better enterprises. Consultancies have tools for their clients and to support their own consulting work; project managers and teams use tools to coordinate work; designers use a wide variety of research methods, workshop formats, and visualisations to design brands, content, products and services; IT architects use specialised modelling languages to design software and infrastructure; coaches apply tools and techniques to influence the social systems of enterprises.
Most of those tools are tailored to specific structural or social aspects of Enterprise Design. Because they are disconnected from each other, however, they do not support the coherent design approach that is needed to design the better enterprises we want to see. We want to enable co-creators from all disciplines to connect their work across disciplines, using a connected, coherent, freely available set of tools. That is why we launched EDGY as the open-source platform for enterprise design tools.
Why publish a tool on the EDGY platform?
The EDGY platform helps you promote your tools and connect them to other EDGY tools on the platform. Using the EDGY language will guarantee your tool is compatible with all the other EDGY-based tools. Together will other EDGY authors, you will be able to co-create the set of coherent Enterprise Design tools needed to design better enterprises.
Examples of tools include:
- an Enterprise Scan to explore the design challenge at hand;
- methods for identifying design challenges;
- methods for strategy formulation;
- maps and diagrams that support exploration and co-creation;
- workshops or structured interview formats;
- spreadsheets that connect EDGY with the OKR methodology;
- methods to organise the “ways of working” of realisation teams (e.g. connecting Scrum or SAFe to EDGY).
How to publish a tool on EDGY
Producing your EDGY tool – from the first outline to the final editing – follows a sequence of activities, supported by people from the Intersection Group editing team. The whole process can take from a couple of months to a year.
Let’s work together on a common open-source standard for Enterprise Design tools!
Step 1 – Conduct intake interview:
Within a week, your contact person will arrange a short video call to discuss content and scope of your tool idea;
Step 2 – Receive template and instructions
If you and your contact person agree on the outline and scope of your tool, you will receive an empty tool template in the form of a Confluence space, plus instructions;
Step 3 – Write draft:
Familiarise yourself with the structure of the tool template and start writing. Don’t hesitate to reach out to your contact person for support when you have questions or need assistance;
Step 4 – Take part in peer review:
When you think the first draft of your tool is ready for review, message your contact person. They will do a formal check to ensure your tool is ready for peer review. Please note: we expect your first draft to be ready for peer review within the first 12 months following registration. After the first draft of your tool has been formally approved, the editing team will perform a thorough peer review. You can expect the first feedback within one month, and a total of one to three iterations of peer review cycles;
Step 5 – Submit final draft for publication:
Once you and your peer reviewers agree that your draft is ready for publication, our editing team will do the English proofreading, finalise the layout, and publish your tool on EDGY.tools.