Rolest
Our 📖Governance: circles & roles are stored in 🧘♀️Asana . We also tested tools like Glassfrog and Holaspirit but they were not flexible enough at that stage (2015). To make our roles and circles easier to understand and find, we developed a tool that displayed them in a nested diagram.
We called this tool Rolest (although the name was never officialised) and it used to be open for the world to see at roles.springest.com . A backup of that is now hosted here . Its first version was built by Dennis Paagman during a 🤓Hack day , with help from Mathijs Blokland for some for the frontend code. Later Mark Mulder helped as well by building a 💬Slack integration for it that would post any governance changes to a channel. That was useful to have as a change log, or to get notified based on keywords / roles / circles you cared about.
The importance of a tool like Rolest is that it dramatically reduced the search cost for everyone in the organisation to find who was accountable for something you wanted to improve.