2017-10-26 Meeting Notes

2017-10-26 Meeting Notes

Date

26 October 2017

Attendees

  • @Margaret Mellinger (Unlicensed)

  • @Hui Zhang (Unlicensed) 

  • @Dan Moore (Unlicensed) 

  • @Kenna Warsinske

  • @Marc Rempel (Unlicensed)

  • @Brandon Straley (Unlicensed)

  • @Gregorio Luis Ramirez (Unlicensed)

  • @Josh Gum (Unlicensed)

  • @Ryan Wick (Unlicensed)

Goals

  • Debrief about last week's retreat, following up on what's next 

Discussion Items

Time

Item

Who

Notes

20-25 minutes

How have you integrated deep work (focused work) into your daily routine so far?

Other thoughts about the retreat?

All

  • Liked feeling good about ignoring slack - because focus time Icon was up

  • Liked some of the tools Slack offers

  • Need to get into the workflow of it.

  • Physical way of alerting others about unavailability

  • Dan hasn't had a chance to try it yet.

  • Greg finds it challenging to decide on an ending time. He likes his focus time be in the morning.

  • Synchronize calendar with Slack - apple script that Greg runs everyday. You could add a timer to it. There is a limitation because is can break the focus time if the timer runs out. Have keywords alerts set up.

  • Scheduling focus time - for josh it's just ad hoc - on the lookout for focus time. Super effective this week.

  • Idea to use something like LibAnswers and a shared calendar

  • Could be a channel - but you don't put anything in there unless it's an emergency. And maybe we schedule people to monitor that?

  • Focus time is not always a requirement. Josh notes that he would not know if he is going to have focus time until

  • Upshot is that everyone is to figure out what kind of focus time schedule or implementation works best for them
    We will update our emergency contact list and  

15-20 minutes

Review ETS Problem form and how it connects to Asana

Josh and others

Hold for next meeting

10-15 minutes

Review ETS's old TRELLO boards and groom it for sunsetting

All

DONE thanks all!

Action Items

@Margaret Mellinger (Unlicensed) ETS emergency contact list - set up