30: Co-creation

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Slava talks about the experience he had facilitating co-creation of L&D course and together with Dima they brainstorm ideas for overcoming challenges Slava encountered.

• Dima once again tried to pronounce "Birmingham" correctly
• Baader-Meinhof corner: word "illustrious"
• L&D Mastery course
• Collective creativity
• Points series of events was creative
• 3 ways a problem and a team shape one another
  • Assemble a team and let it find the best problem to solve
  • Define a problem and then put together the best team that can solve
  • Something in between
• Slava's MMFD to driving co-creation in a diverse team
  • Motivation
  • Meetings
  • Freedom
  • Deadlines
• Dima's thought pitfalls to avoid
  • Do not stick to original plan (or idea) to religiously
  • When evolution of the project runs into a dead end, don't be afraid to take a step or two back
• Mistakes Slava made in the process
  • Over-managing the meetings not giving enough room to meaningful discussions
  • Not creating convenient space for collaboration
  • Lack of regular 1:1s
• Allow the team to self-organize!
• How to get the team to engage and care about the whole project
• Tuckman's stages of group development: forming–storming–norming–performing
• Developers, developers, developers!
• How to keep interest in the project going after the initial boost of enthusiasm?
• Next project: centralized or de-centralized?