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
- An ice breaker? Favorite meme? Favorite fruit? Most embarrassing story? IDK come up with something creative
2. Values + Expectations