Sticking Everyone in a Room
This week we started an experiment to try and improve team work and get people involved in each others’ projects. We stuck everyone in a conference room from 11 to 4 on Tuesday. However it wasn’t a meeting, it was a work session. Preliminary results from the first instance were very positive. We were all working on presentations for the upcoming consortium board meeting, and it proved an excellent opportunity to confirm that various presentations were consistent with each other. Another group of people was working on understanding how to effectively use our new project management tool. Still a third group was working on the website. People floated back and forth between these groups. I will be interested to see how this works when people are working on more technical than administrative issues.