By now your entire team should have done a team retrospective. Meetings are hard so please try to think of ways to collaborate async with your team members. For example, use Miro to collect ideas async and shorten meetings with clear agenda.
Please continue to promote your members efforts using the 'Shoutout!' channel or team meetings. It helps to drive engagement and improve team morale.
Please organise time for presentation and preparing the materials for the Showcase this week. This is not compulsory - just an opportunity for students aiming for higher marks to showcase your team's work to the managing directors. You need to ensure your team are aware of this, and communicate to us who is interested and what time so we can schedule it, however you do not need to participate if you do not want to.
Remind team to start looking at the Software Requirements Specification in preparation for OnTrack Task 6.2.
Continue to build out your Trello boards. For teams who are still struggling with this, we have prepared a Trello guide. We will run a short workshop later this week to cover in more detail. We will also be starting to provide some specific feedback on your Trello boards this week.
If you are would like to improve sprint planning, the upcoming delivery lead workshop might be of great interest. We have rescheduled it from 6 - 7PM on Tuesday 05/04/2022.
Guidance on user stories and requirement extracting will also be coming later this week.
Please ensure your team's regular meetings are in the Thoth Tech calendar. This provides visibility and also means that leadership know when your meetings are incase we need to jump in to support. If you have any difficulties with this, let us know.
You could help the company to help us understand the company learning and development needs and plan for resources. Please advocate the survey to your team. If any team members would like to facilitate any training or you have identified any experts that can spread knowledge beyond your teams, please do not hesitate to reach out to the Area Leads. We love to collaborate and build a great learning culture at Thoth-tech.
If you would like to express interest to attend the leadership conference - please let us know. This is a shadowing development experience that would be beneficial, particularly for juniors taking more leadership responsibility next trimester.
Please familiarise yourself with the following guidelines:
The Quality Assurance strategy and think how it applies to the context of your project. We are running a Q&A session between 6:00 PM - 6:45 PM on Wed 6/04/2022 and love to hear your feedback and questions.
The Communication Guide and see if it can help to streamline your team communication process. It's a living document and we'd absolutely love your contribution to improve it.
Please keep monitor your team health and the level of engagement. We recommend a good 7-min read on the topic of Conscious Leadership that you might find useful.