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title: 'Garpez Session 0 - Mara, Luigi, Dani'

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# 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