Date: 2017-12-07
Accepted
For a long time, we only have a few tech sharing in our company.
So we take a survey in October and get the willings of sharing details from the whole R&D team, subjects include: Python, Java, database, spider, data analysis, automation, algorithm, project experience and so on.
Absolutely, People always have the passion to attend sharing.
There are a lot of ways to do sharing.
- Formal sharing
- sharer prepare a specific topic with well design ppt
- Casual talking
- people sit around a table and talk
Lean coffee- participants gather, build an agenda, and begin talking
Formal sharing need a long time for preparing, we have try, but have too few sharers.
Casual talking don’t have good topics, as developer always too shy to talk.
Lean Coffee is a structured, but agenda-less meeting. Participants gather, build an agenda, and begin talking. Conversations are directed and productive because the agenda for the meeting was democratically generated.
Lean Coffee talk a little time(less than 10 minutes) to prepare, but have the chosen topics for talking.
We decide make this every Monday from 7:30 to 9:00.
- Set up a simple Kanban;
- What to Discuss;
- Vote and Talk;
- 3 columns:
To DiscussDiscussionDiscussed; - Put topics in
To Discusswith 1-2 sentences each other; - Vote (2 votes each) and order it;
- Set an 8 minute timer;
- Move the first item into
Discussionand start talking; - Repeat;
- 5 minutes left for 1-2 sentence takeaways each other.
After 5 sharings, we find some things need to improve.
- Less than 10 people to attend each time is better;
- If we have a sign-in form will be good;
- Everyone should write the topics and vote;
- Choose one people recording discussions we talked and write in wiki later.
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