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👥 Team rituals help maintain healthy communication, boundaries, and expectations between teammates and as a team. Our rituals can and should evolve as our team evolves. It is welcome to iterate on and experiment with our rituals.
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Asynchronous collaboration
In order to stay in touch throughout the week and support each other, we share the following in our #team-support-engineering Slack channel.
- Daily captain's log. Every day as we go about our days, we share things we learn/read/hear that are important for us to all know. Yes, we are all in the same channels, but a lot happens in Slack every day and this is how we collectively stay on top of things.
- As-needed what you missed compilation. When someone is not working, before they are out, they share a doc for the rest of the team to populate with anything we want to be sure they are aware of from when they were away
Synchronous collaboration
In order to get some purposeful face-time in with each other, we convene synchronously over Zoom for...
- SE team planning and retros where we consider what is going well vs not, discuss, brainstorm, and share important information; more details in on our team meeting norms.
Expectations
In order to keep the air clear with each other, we do the following:
- We honor our Sourcegraph values, code of conduct, and team ethos
- We make it clear when are committing to do something, we make it equally clear when we cannot, and we adjust and communicate accordingly when life happens
- We let each other know immediately when we are feeling like it's anything other than feasible to get done what we have committed to doing
- We let each other know immediately the moment we realize something we committed to doing may be at risk somehow
When we are away from our keyboard (afk) or out of office (ooo)
If you are going to away from your keyboard (afk) or out of office (ooo) -- planned or unplanned, the team relies on you using your agency to make sure what you ensure there is a plan to cover what have committed to being responsible for. Please refer to our PTO guidelines for more details.