I am so impressed by your work @alisha.eth
I love having the True Names crew in there… excited about the elections! It is a great experiment!
I am in full support of this proposal and have a few things that we want to watch out for.
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Space for Feedback and Conflict Management: I hope there is space made for feedback and conflict management in each working group, team building is an art and just electing 3 -5 people and having them work together won’t always work out well and there will need to be space for hard conversations around interpersonal issues and directional differences of opinion.
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Expect Working Groups to Splinter: I would expect these working groups to break up and specialize more than it seems in this post… Some elected stewards and/or important contributors will want to focus on one piece and splinter off into a smaller “sub” working group for easier coordination… maybe eventually becoming their own working group. This should be easy socially… the on-chain side isn’t so important.
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What is Each Working Group’s Mission? Ideally each Working group will have a Manifesto of sorts that should be revisited on a regular basis… bonus points for OKR type sessions and regular checkins on progress.
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Transparency as a value Coordination is hard, but it is important that there are recorded calls and convos in discord channels and this sort of thing… Mutual Monitoring! It’s an Ostrom principle for a reason. It will have a lot of positive second order effects (new people being able to jump in & get up to speed, members will stay more professional & accountable, etc etc).
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Cross WG coordination A lot will be figured out after the new year by the working groups starting and i think this will be natural since its starting with 2 people from True Names already… but there should be a way for the WGs to share their upcoming plans with everyone else… and all hands meeting or something every 2 weeks to a month… I assume this is part of the Meta-Gov WG’s work
Honestly… the TEC does this better than any DAO I have seen and its because of the systems Tam and Livia have built and evolved… Come to a Retrospective call (we do them with all the WG leads and stewards every 2 weeks). It will be really fun to watch!
Or they are all on our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/TokenEngineeringCommons/videos
Here is a random one from a month ago: TEC Sprint 21 Retrospective - YouTube