Related to the above, I actually think that the big challenge with a project like this is sustaining the coordination and collaboration.
I’d focus on keeping communication costs as low as possible. Make sure that you understand the needs of the key people in the collaboration and ensure that their cost-benefit ratios can sustain their involvement e.g., if people need publications/conversion rate improvements to justify their involvement then make sure that the projects are set up so that they will deliver those outcomes.
Lots of one-to-many communication and not too many calls to reduce communication costs.
Yep! This makes me think of Christian and Griffiths ‘Algorithms to Live By’ on how Economies of scale work in reverse when something becomes ‘a sock matching problem’, or ‘everyone has to shake hands with everyone else’. I hope our use of Gitbook wiki (and maybe I’ll embed some videos) helps solve this prob. We’re also hoping to have efficient meetings with the whole group on particular themes (but not ’everyone has to weigh in on everyone else’s position in real time I guess).
‘Think about the needs and medium-term wins/outcomes for the collaborators’—very good idea.
We actually had some discussion of organizational issues which we cut out of the post (as it’s ‘our problem to sort out’). But this did include things like the risk of “‘too many stakeholders and goals leading to death by committee’, and ‘spreading ourselves too thin and being overambitious, with too many targets’”
This makes me think of Christian and Griffiths ‘Algorithms to Live By’ on how Economies of scale work in reverse when something becomes ‘a sock matching problem’, or ‘everyone has to shake hands with everyone else’.
Yep! This makes me think of Christian and Griffiths ‘Algorithms to Live By’ on how Economies of scale work in reverse when something becomes ‘a sock matching problem’, or ‘everyone has to shake hands with everyone else’. I hope our use of Gitbook wiki (and maybe I’ll embed some videos) helps solve this prob. We’re also hoping to have efficient meetings with the whole group on particular themes (but not ’everyone has to weigh in on everyone else’s position in real time I guess).
‘Think about the needs and medium-term wins/outcomes for the collaborators’—very good idea.
We actually had some discussion of organizational issues which we cut out of the post (as it’s ‘our problem to sort out’). But this did include things like the risk of “‘too many stakeholders and goals leading to death by committee’, and ‘spreading ourselves too thin and being overambitious, with too many targets’”
Thanks! I hadn’t thought about that!