First Team Meetings are even more important than first client calls, because it really does set the tone to how your team is run.

Goal

• Set standards on behavior and expectations and get to know each other
• Get team to know each other
• Behaviors
  • Timeliness on meetings
  • Timeliness on completing tasks
• Expectations
  • How this team is going to operate (schedule weekly meetings, time commitment)
  • How future dev nights are like
  • Schedule
  • What to expect from PM/TL
  • What we expect from you
• Culture you want to set
  • Starts with the project leads setting an example
  • Every small thing you do matters
    • Your tone, your mannerisms, how you joke, how you treat them initially, how you talk to them (are you demanding or are you shy)
• Share client’s story and vision
• Free brainstorm about the project

Before

• Come up with Agenda
  • What ice breakers?
  • What you expect from your team

A Typical Team First Meeting

Intros · Values + Expectations · Schedule + Logistics · Nonprofit & Brainstorm · Summary

A lot of this is very specific to how you and your partner want to run your team and expect from them. The yellow is some stuff I wrote out to give you a starting point. We also asked you this in your leads interviews :)

1. Intros

1. An ice breaker? Favorite meme? Favorite fruit? Most embarrassing story? IDK come up with something creative

2. Values + Expectations