Create a discrete project

A discrete project can be your entry point into the organization. Whoever can see the result of your project will be able to attest that you can do more work in the future. Before you start working, make sure you sign up for an account.

1. Come up with a project idea

Either join our Wednesday meet up and discuss new ideas or explore what could be done in Deep Skills to support someone or help them with work. You might have personal projects that you would like to explore how to find clients for or an idea for a larger project that could be interesting for the entire ecosystem. Or maybe you just want to prove your skills to someone while involving others in your idea.

Try to already get a sense of how that project could either fit into Deep Skills or how it could extend what Deep Skills is doing.

2. Find a supervisor

A supervisor can be a Creative Director, a representative of an existing department or an Expert. It's important that this person has earned tokens in Deep Skills by working as an Expert or Director.

It helps to reach out to them before you continue with creating the project so they are aware of your idea and where you see the value in the project. You can also discuss more details with them and get some advice.

3. Create a discrete project

Create a discrete project to experiment with your idea. You can invite others, come up with a list of tasks and even ask for budget. It's important that you tag the supervisor.

Use this Typeform to submit your project idea to discord and ping a supervisor.

A discrete project can also be your entry point into the organization. Whoever can see the result of your project will be able to attest that you can do more work in the future. Before you start working, please make sure you sign up for an account.

4. Enjoy the project

Work on your project, run experiments, ask others for advice, do user research, bring it up on a community hang out. Try to talk about it as much as possible to gather feedback and finish with a result that makes you happy.

You can follow the progress of your project and add details on the bottom of this Notion page. Ask your supervisor for access if you need to make edits.

5. Review with your supervisor

After you're done, you will review the work with a supervisor. Ask them if it fits into the organizational design of Deep Skills or how it could become its own project or start-up.

If it needs further improvement, ask them what they think it needs and how you could make it better.

If your supervisor clearly sees where this may fit into Deep Skills, skip to step 7.

6. Iterate on the project

Some projects need adjustments and now that you have a first version of your requirements, list of tasks and maybe even a team, you can iterate. Review everything you did in the previous iteration, improve the project submission, task list, cost and team and start again.

7. Make it part of Deep Skills

If your supervisor decides that this project is valuable, you can together integrate it into Deep Skills. It will have to be discussed with everyone from the department or submitted as a proposal to Snapshot (coming soon).

Once it has been voted on and accepted, you need to do the following:

• Write the workflow of tasks into GitBook

• Add the role to the organization in Miro

• Add all relevant details to the department in Notion

• Create a budget sheet or adjust the budget sheet of the department.

Ask your supervisor to help you with these steps.