AD&T Weekly Meeting

AD&T from 11pm to 1:30am and then omg sleep.

• Colocation: the hard drives have arrived at FastServ, we’re waiting on the servers with anticipation
• Deploy schedule: late September/early October still looking good
• Bookmarks: Our lovelycal  has been working her heart out on this and it’s going to be a massive improvement. We’re hanging to see it deployed on Test so we can play with it as well. We’re also indebted to flamebyrd  who has been working on the front end and trying to make it as a pretty as possible (it’s not easy!)
• Front Page: Still workshopping this one – we have a lot of opinions!
• Passwords: It looks like we're going to have to sacrifice user-friendly for hack-resistant
• Hoovering: astolat  is starting on the work for this - we want to be able to give people the option of importing large amounts of works (or entire archives) and we have several archivists who are hanging to be able to do this.
• Collections & Challenges: bingeling  is starting the design-work for this *comforts* she will not be alone!
• Open Beta: mid October!

AO3 Support Meeting: I have handed this over torustler  (who gallantly offered to chair the meetings when I pled overcommitted) but I snuck in after I woke up and read the transcript and planning is afoot.

Second round of pre-MBA workshops

Introduction to Referencing probably wasn’t critical to my survival but it was a good refresher and being there meant I got to have a passionate conversation with one of the (gorgeous, omg perfectly straight waist length hair) Chinese women about styles of leadership and teamwork from a very different cultural perspective. We compared my tendency to leap in boots first, her strong teamwork skills and talked about where that comes from plus the associated pitfalls.

Enhancing Your Team Experience (Pt B) was ridiculously fun. We’re all motivated and have previous experience so we’re being incredibly well behaved and radiating ‘ideal team mate’ at each other. It was a joy to work in a group of five on a timed exercise where we’re all hyperconscious of how we’re treating each other and focussing on creating the best possible team dynamic. We’re also pretty competitive so balancing ‘Task-Goal’ with ‘Team’ was a challenge. My team came second in speed but got the first correct answer, we were rewarded with slim UWA embossed wallets which is handy, I can store my new swipe card/ID in it :p

We did an abbreviated version of the Belbin Model for team analysis – if you’re interested there’s an online variant. The idea is to answer the questions while contemplating how you behave in team situations. I’d love to know what my AD&T team members get! I’m also conscious that for me, this partly reflects my preferences and that in practice with AD&T I Shape and Coordinate more than I Resource Investigate.

1. Resource Investigator 83
2. Shaper 72
3. Coordinator 69
4. Specialist 64
5. Plant 61
6. Team Worker 56
7. Implementer 53
8. Monitor Evaluator 53
9. Completer Finisher 50