Team Members: Anthony, Annabelle, Jonathan, Frankie, Izzy
- Avoid passivity– and encourage opinions + voicing them!
- Designate a PM-esque point person (PEPP) for the project over the course of the rest of the quarter.
- Keeping track of deadlines
- Point person for knowing what needs to get done that week
- What we want + how we’re gonna get it done
- Forward-looking
- Checking in once in a while if things seem stalled
- Everyone should feel free to check in on the progress of others/work being done!
- Whole team should contribute to the workload and work to proactively even the workload out
- Set meeting times per week
- Reserve meeting times (3x/week) but be flexible on whether meeting needs to happen on a meeting-by-meeting basis
- When meetings don’t happen, we should post stand-ups (what we worked on, what we’re working on) in the Discord
- If people get sick:
- 1 person sick → zoom the person in, do in-person with the rest
- More than 1 person → remote meeting
- Minimal agreement to move forward on decisions
- Checking in on the decisions we make;
- Check in proactively and be communicative when decision points are being reached (as you work on things).
- Don’t worry about being over-communicative– in fact, PLEASE over-communicate!! “If you’re not over-communicating you’re not communicating enough”
- Gentle and honest for negative feedback + disagreement
- → work towards compromise & synthesis
- Be willing to go out on a limb, try things out (Intellectual Vitality™) → be willing to be convinced! / Have an open mind!
- Assume good intentions / respect each other enough to be direct and give critique!
- When ideating, don’t get bogged down by application!
- Later on, it’s also good to not get bogged down by concept stuff (be willing to be realistic with scope– we have 5 weeks hahaha)
- “Trust and verify” – but also don’t interpret the ‘verify’ part as mistrust (we’re just all interested in making this as good as it can be! :D)
- Verify in the spirit of “how can I help, if needed?”
- Use the hell out of reactions 😀
- Be honest with your bandwidth
- “Hi, I’m drowning”
- “Hi, I can help!”
- Be honest when you need to give up a task you took earlier!
- This includes PEPP responsibilities!
- Affirm each other! Encourage and notice when things go well 🙂
- Rest + health is important!
