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Running early team meetings

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Running early team meetings

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- [Instructor] Working together in phase 0, to do anything of substance takes a team. To do anything of substance takes a very clear plan for a project. Clear projects succeed, unclear projects fail. Clear plans for projects require us to define project success criteria. At a high-level, that simply can be how much are we going to spend and what are we going to get. At a more detailed level, it will be more detailed. Last thing to work together on a phase 0 is to avoid the bungee teammate and confirm that you have a committed team for the duration. And ask them, ask in point blank. Are you here for the duration? If they're not, then that's a problem that you can tackle offline. The successful conclusion of phase 0 is a clear plan of record ready for phase 1, that's the engineering scoping phase. So, please along the way during phase 0, paint the picture of success and do what takes you from phase 0 into phase 1. Phase 0, by definition, means that we are doing team formation. And it's…

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