# Garpez Session 0 - Mara, Luigi, Dani ## When you start a new item announce it by ... - moving the card from todo to in progress - sending a message in the squad slack channel - talking about it in the next day standup - talking about it in the morning standup if i plan to start it in that day ## When you are stuck on an item, announce this by ... - talking about it in the next day standup - sending a message in a slack channel (squad, tribe, cop) - jumping in discord to find someone can help me - sending a slack private message to someone who can help me - looking for a solution in stackoverflow ## When you notice that we’re stuck as a team, ... - send a message in the squad or tribe slack channel - send a slack message tagging our managers (eg Lorenzo, Emanueldomenico, Francesco D) - organize a meeting with the team to discuss possible solutions - talk about it in the next day standup - talk about it in the next retrospective - talk with someone via videocall - organize a touchpoint people who can unlock us ## When we discover that we miss a certain skill, we ... - ask to someone external to the tribe via slack message - involve someone with the missing skill to the refinements - plan/propose a spike activity to study the missing skill - send a message in the tribe slack channel - can jump in discord to find someone can help us - talking about it in the next day standup ## When we face a seemingly unresolvable conflict in our team, we ... - chat with some other member of the team to have another point of view and clarify our ideas - propose to our managers a team change / swap - try to understand why this conflict is unresolvable ## When a conflict starts to escalate in our team, we ... - try to have a chat / videocall to clarify the conflict and find an agreement/tradeoff - chat with some other member of the team to have another point of view and clarify our ideas - "ci lanciamo le tastiere virtualmente" - _A. Cassano_ ## When someone starts to feel uncomfortable or anxious in an argument, we ... - try to have a 1-to-1 chat / call with this person when the discussion is concluded trying to calm him/her down - try to help him/her in the discussion also when not completely agree with the expressed ideas - try to facilitate / ease the discussion keeping it positive and constructive - during the discussion / argument make questions to understand the reasons behind the anxiety ## We invite feedback by [...] and honor the giver by [...], even though we are not required to agree - .. by asking the feedback via videocall during the 1to1s .... and honor the giver trying to find concrete actions to improve on that topic - .. by asking the feedback via direct email when we need an async written one ... and honor the giver sending an email / message back to thank him / her ## We encourage each other to admit mistakes by ... - let other team members feel safe - let other team members understand that there is no blame or punishment for mistakes ## We encourage each other to maintain a sustainable pace by... - promoting the right life/work balance - promoting the right coffee break moments in daybyday activities - accounting for the right number of US in the sprint planning ## When someone in our team experiences a lot of stress, we ... - try to understand the cause and talk with him/her about what we can do to avoid the same thing again