Team meetings and communications
Team meetings and rituals
- Researcher team meeting on Thursdays from 3-4 PM ET
- Attendees: All researchers at CDS
- Frequency: Every week
- Length: One hour
- Purpose: Share updates and discuss important issues
- Standing agenda:
- Management updates from Colin (10 minutes), including topics like:
- Updates on who we’re hiring
- CDS strategy and policy discussions
- Researcher standup (15 minutes), where each person shares:
- What they did last week
- What they’ll do in thenext week
- Any blockers
- A topic of the week, which we plan on the Trello board, like:
- A retro
- Best practices for a certain area
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Introduction to a new tool
- Research community meeting on Wednesdays from 10:30-11:30 AM ET
- Attendees: Anyone interested in design research at CDS, not just researchers
- Frequency: Every other week
- Purpose: Share updates and discuss important issues
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Agenda: A workshop by a researcher about a topic of interest to non-researchers at CDS. We track coming presentations on the Trello board. See this Google Drive folder of past presentations.
- One-on-ones with Colin weekly
- Attendees: You and Colin
- Frequency: Every other week
- Purpose: Touch base on your OKR progress and blockers facing your work
- Length: Half an hour
- Standing agenda:
- Blockers facing your product’s research
- Progress on your OKRs
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Whatever else you’d like to discuss
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Team lunch monthly Optional. We go out to lunch every month or so as a team to chat without a set agenda.
- Team retreat quarterly We meet for 4-5 hours toward the end of each quarter to reflect and plan for the next. See the objectives setting process page for more details.
Communication channels
- #research-team on Slack is a private channel with only researchers. We use this channel for communications relevant only to us. Even though it’s hidden, an access to information request could make it public. #designresearch on Slack is a channel for anyone interested in design research. We use this channel for any discussion (related to research) CDS might enjoy.
- We use email very little for communication amongst our team. Slack is a better bet.
- Last updated by Colin on March 14, 2019