DTR_guiding_questions.md

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Guiding Questions

For this initial exploration into what you bring to a team, try to avoid thinking about your TECHNICAL skills. Your answers to these questions should apply to any project/team that you work on:

How would you describe your preferred working style?

Alone with a list of tasks

What strengths do you bring to a team?

Ability to work alone with a list of tasks

What’s gone well or poorly in your previous group project settings?

Not working alone with a list of tasks

How do you prefer to handle disagreements that come up? (Yes, they will come up!)

Move on from them so progress can continue to happen

How do you communicate best? What tools do you need to communicate well with your teammates?

• Don't know; dubious of my best communication methods
• email

How do you prefer to make decisions as a team?

• in harmony with the team

How do you prefer to receive feedback? How do you prefer to give feedback?

• feedback is appreciated when it's requested or gently announced as feedback
• When it's requested

What do you need (resources, environment, communication) to do your best work?

• water
• quiet
• a list of tasks

What scheduling constraints do you have? What are your preferred work times outside of normal school hours?

• n/a
• all of them

What does remote focus look like for you? (headphones, distractions minimized (tv, family stuff, etc), video on)

• peace and quiet, and a list of tasks

When working from the same place where you live, life can get in the way. What are some potential life things that could affect your ability to focus, and what plan can we come up with to approach those moments?

• Anything is potentially a distraction
• Routine is a plan

If we encounter issues such as power outages, Zoom difficulties, or bad wifi, what backup plans can we have in place? (This could have answers like asking a neighbor to borrow wifi, using cellphone hotspot for internet, switching to Slack.)

• asking a neighbor to borrow wifi
• using cellphone hotspot for internet
• switching to Slack

How do you want the group to solve problems when members run into blockers on the project?

• What's a blocker?

What are some potential life things that could affect your ability to focus, and what plan can you come up with to approach those moments? (duplicate)

• Anything is potentially a distraction
• Routine is a plan

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