Chapter 9
Working the Team
After the company meeting at Seaside, Team Social gained momentum. We shipped several small features, fixed dozens of bugs, and put our massive list of feature ideas into order. To set a regular pace for ourselves, we agreed to the following:
Monday: Team meeting in IRC (10:00 a.m. PST, 6:00 p.m. for Peatling).
Monday: Everyone would be assigned an MIT (Most Important Thing) to work on.
Thursday: Everyone posts their status on our P2.
Friday: I post a summary to other leaders on the leads' P2. There was a special P2 just for team leads.
Monthly: I e-mail everyone for one-on-one questions about how they were doing.
IRC and P2 were the glue that held us together and made this simple spine of a structure work. This was ...
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