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  • Welcome to Deep Skills
  • Deep Skills Organization
    • Quick Start Guide
    • About Deep Skills
      • Meetings & Workshops
        • 1:1 Meetings
        • Alignment and delegation
        • User journey
        • Presentation or landing page
        • Retrospective
      • Discord Server
  • Working at Deep Skills
    • Project-based work
      • General Etiquette
      • Roles & Responsibilities
        • Director
        • Expert
        • Contributor
        • Shadower
    • Getting Paid
      • Contributor Agreement
  • Skills and roles
    • Consultancy
      • Project owner
        • Workflow
          • Preparation
          • Consultation Call
          • Proposal Process
          • Payment Process
          • Retrospective
      • Data Steward
        • Workflow
          • Skills Interview Guide
      • DAO Steward
        • Workflow
          • Project Scoping Workshop
          • Retrospective Workshop
    • Operations
      • Operations Steward
        • Workflow
    • Engineering
      • Engineering PM
        • Workflow
      • Backend
        • Workflow
      • Frontend
      • DevOps
        • Workflow
      • Quality Assurance
        • Workflow
          • Project Testing
      • Solutions Architect
        • Workflow
    • Finance
      • Finance Director
    • Creating a new project →
      • Create a discrete project
        • Complete a discrete project
      • Create a recurring project
        • Complete a recurring project
      • Create a long-term project
  • Tools & Resources
    • Knowledge & Learning
    • Feedback
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  • Core team alignment
  • General progress updates
  • Projects and business units
  • 1:1 Meetings
  • Workshops
  • Recruit Contributors to the core team

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  1. Working at Deep Skills
  2. Project-based work
  3. Roles & Responsibilities

Director

This page describes the responsibilities of a member of the core team.

Core team alignment

Always make sure that any progress, divergence from your current goals, or change of focus is shared and confirmed by the core team. You can achieve this through a 1:1 meeting with every core member, by sharing it on Discord or set up a call with everyone in the team if you need a workshop.

You can use Lettucemeet to agree on a time.

General progress updates

As a core team member, you are responsible for the oversight and documentation of the workstream of your expertise. Regular progress updates should be posted in the respective Discord channel to keep everyone in the loop of your learnings and progress.

You can use this Typeform to share the details with everyone without going to Discord.

Projects and business units

Any time you can see a cluster of work that falls under your area of responsibility, it can be a part of your business unit. In order to communicate to everyone that you will be working on it, please use this Typeform to instantiate a recurring project and this Typeform for a one-off discrete project. It will create a document and post all relevant details to Discord.

1:1 Meetings

Text messages are easy to misunderstand, especially since it removes a layer of communication about emotional wellbeing. Once a text-based conversation exceeds 5-7 messages, jump on a 1:1 call in order to achieve one of the following goals:

  1. Gather ideas from others

  2. Understand how to (re-)prioritize your current tasks

  3. Delegate work

Workshops

You can also achieve the same goals within a group (3+ individuals) in the same amount of time. The best way to do it is to apply a workshop format anytime you notice that a conversation is drifting away from the initial goal. Here are a few simple principles:

  1. Always capture important-sounding thoughts on sticky notes on a whiteboard.

  2. Are people contributing with ideas but don't converge on a single outcome?

    Ask everyone to write down all their ideas over the course of five minutes. Then vote to prioritize.

  3. Are there too many topics to discuss?

    Make sure the group of attendees includes relevant members and run an ideation workshop.

  4. Are there people who would like to contribute?

    Review decisions from the workshop and ask who wants to take responsibility for the available tasks.

Recruit Contributors to the core team

If you find someone with a unique skill set and who is proactive about their work, you can propose to recruit them to the core team. The requirements are:

  • They have a unique skill set that is of value to the product

  • They have proven to take full responsibility and complete a project in the past

  • They are aware of the values of the core team

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