Our alliance
As a team, we regularly discuss and decide on our alliance, and document these openly and publicly.
Our alliance is as follows:
- We agree that it is important for us to all learn
- Using our 10% time to learn and share with each other
- Using our firebreaks to learn and share with each other
- Attending conferences and sharing learnings with each other
- We agree that it is ok for us to make mistakes
- We will learn from our mistakes and share those learnings with each other - blameless retrospectives
- We will lead a blameless culture
- We agree that it is ok to respectfully challenge and debate each other
- We agree that no question is a stupid question
- We aim to over communicate in our team channel
- We will be transparent, open, and inclusive
- We will endeavor to set up a system where people can send their thoughts and ideas anonymously if they wish to
- We will have our camera on in meetings as a default but will respect if people choose to turn it off
- We will highlight achievements externally
- We will respond to written feedback requests in a timely manner
- We meet in person on a regular basis
- We will have regular team socials
- We will regularly introspect and adapt
- We will share and actively engage with other teams
- We won't take ourselves too seriously
- We will be responsive to user needs
- We should be confident to challenge user needs if we think they are wrong, but we will do so respectfully and with evidence
- We will respect each others ways of working
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