5Team Organization
Based on our experiences at Serlo, we suggest the following steps and tools to establish work flows.
In case you don't have a Google email address yet, we recommend creating one in order to be able to use Google Drive and Hangouts.
Weekly Working Session
Organize weekly or bi-weekly working Sessions of one to two hours. This regularity is extremely important to keep everyone motivated and helps you develop a team-spririt. You could also use them to share updates and talk about strategy. For the setting, have a look at the tips for Sprints below.
Organize Sprints
Sprints are dedicated to specific tasks, like creating content for a specific topic. Sprints help the team to get a substantial amount of work done while celebrating yourself for it. The duration of a sprint is between two hours and a whole weekend.
Be creative in combining the sprints with having a good time, e.g:
Start off with having dinner together.
Choose a cozy café with Wifi in the city as your co-working space.
Prepare one of your flats as part time office.
Ensure, that there is always plenty to eat and drink.
Maybe you can ask a startup or company with a beautiful office, if they are willing to donate some space for your new Serlo team?
reward yourselfs with some out door activities after the sprint.
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Tools
We suggest to use the following tools to strengthen the interoperability with Serlo Education headquaters:
internal communications: Community-chat: for our communication in Serlo we use RocketChat. Feel free to also use it for your internal team-communication.
documents and files: Google Drive: ask your Serlo-Guide to create a language-folder for you.
video calls: Google Hangouts: we made good experiences with Hangouts for video-calls. You can also have a look at our tips for remote-calls.
CRM: just start with Google Sheets. You can also use the planning-documents for new languages.
