I’d establish goals, resources/collaborative capacity (e.g., what do we collectively want to achieve in x time, and what do we have to get there). Then select someone to lead the project and who will support them and how and go from there.
Agreed. I think we are still in the process of coming together and agreeing on which areas we can collaborate on and what the key priorities are. I suspect that it will be helpful to do some work and some small trials before meeting to decide on these overarching goals, to have a better sense of things. (Of course we have outlined these overarching goals in general, more or less as discussed above, but we need to fill in the specifics and the most promising angles and avenues.) I’m not sure we need one single ‘leader of everything’ but it will be good to have someone to ‘take ownership of each specific project’ (the whole ‘assigned to, reports to’ thing) as well as overall coordination.
Also, get everyone on some project management platform like Asana.
We are currently using a combination of Slack (conversation), Gitbook/Github (documentation and organized discussion of plans and information), and Airtable (structured information as data). I think you are right that we need to use these tools in specific ways that enable project management, keeping track of where we are on each project, who needs to do what, etc.
I’d still probably recommend Asana or a similar task manager if you can get everyone to try them. Micheal Noetel introduced me to it and he uses it very well with several research teams using concepts like ‘sprints’ and various other software design inspired approaches.
Agreed. I think we are still in the process of coming together and agreeing on which areas we can collaborate on and what the key priorities are. I suspect that it will be helpful to do some work and some small trials before meeting to decide on these overarching goals, to have a better sense of things. (Of course we have outlined these overarching goals in general, more or less as discussed above, but we need to fill in the specifics and the most promising angles and avenues.) I’m not sure we need one single ‘leader of everything’ but it will be good to have someone to ‘take ownership of each specific project’ (the whole ‘assigned to, reports to’ thing) as well as overall coordination.
We are currently using a combination of Slack (conversation), Gitbook/Github (documentation and organized discussion of plans and information), and Airtable (structured information as data). I think you are right that we need to use these tools in specific ways that enable project management, keeping track of where we are on each project, who needs to do what, etc.
I’d still probably recommend Asana or a similar task manager if you can get everyone to try them. Micheal Noetel introduced me to it and he uses it very well with several research teams using concepts like ‘sprints’ and various other software design inspired approaches.