Tonight's topic:  meetings, scheduling, collaboration tools

Part 1: Meetings - 00:05:05

• Treat meetings as a morale-booster, but make sure to get things done, too
• Round-robin, have everyone give updates in their own words
• Start with generalities and dig into specifics if any concerns are notes

Part 2: Scheduling - 00:16:59

• Keep a calendar with ‘outstanding’ events, and keep it up to dates
• Develop general understanding of occupied vs. free time for each person, like ‘normal’ jobs
• Establish preferred methods of contact, and what level of urgency each is considered

Intermission:  Sir Nuts - Byte Blocks - Megaman 9 (OC ReMix)

Part 3: Collaboration tools - 00:26:43

• Trello - task management (free!)
  • Easy visual separation and tracking
  • Separate boards for task-heavy areas, use at least one general / common board
  • Great for personal management, even if you don't adopt it for team use
• Wiki - heavy text creation / editing (free!)
  • Start out with guidelines on how to use / organize content
  • Ensure it's not too visually unappealing
  • Provide templates if you have enough know-how - very easy to replicate common data across multiple pages
• git - development source control (free!)
  • Very powerful, but you don't need to use every feature
  • Likely want to augment with some other visualization / management package (like Stash [cheap!])