The In & Out

Helping teams sync their productive time.

How this helped: It helped us avoid burnout when we tried to continually stay in a "expanding" phase for too long. When people were no longer on different phases than each-other our coordination costs decreased.

Structure

One Phase Expanding

For example one phase may be 2 weeks where teams are working externally:

• a greater focus on the operations of the organization;

• create new relationships, attend events, etc;

• write and share code & articles, etc;

• etc

One Phase Contracting

The contracting phase is of equal length and priority where teams work internally:

• a greater focus to the people, purpose, and governance processes of the organization;

• following through with existing relationships and build community;

• gain feedback, sense needs;

• design new features;

• find inspiration;

• rest;

• etc.

Authored by Rieki Cordon, Hypha DHO