Do you think setting a day to talk with teams one-on-one before the event would help mitigate some of the randomness associated with team formation and get a better flavour of commitment? It will certainly give participants a better flavour of commitment. I think that this will lead to more early dropouts, so I have no idea whether this will be a sensible policy. I also suspect most will deem it unnecessary and overly paternalistic. Teams that take it seriously will meet up themselves.
One thing Iām piloting to improve follow up is setting a day to talk with teams about report progression, say a week after an event. Do you think that would help? Yes, definitely! One week is pretty short, but I think it would create a deadline (you have to have something baked together and prepared) that was lacking.
Also: I think that two attempts at replication games is not a good sample size (especially if the success and fun is not normally distributed), so I will attend another one. See you around!
Hi Derek,
thanks for your kind reply.
Do you think setting a day to talk with teams one-on-one before the event would help mitigate some of the randomness associated with team formation and get a better flavour of commitment? It will certainly give participants a better flavour of commitment. I think that this will lead to more early dropouts, so I have no idea whether this will be a sensible policy. I also suspect most will deem it unnecessary and overly paternalistic. Teams that take it seriously will meet up themselves.
One thing Iām piloting to improve follow up is setting a day to talk with teams about report progression, say a week after an event. Do you think that would help? Yes, definitely! One week is pretty short, but I think it would create a deadline (you have to have something baked together and prepared) that was lacking.
Also: I think that two attempts at replication games is not a good sample size (especially if the success and fun is not normally distributed), so I will attend another one. See you around!