Giant Conversations GC - #15 Giant Swarm On-sites & Mansions
Jun 20, 2024
32:49
Tommy jumps on with Joshua Olson-Kerrigan (otherwise known as Dr. OK) to talk On-sites and mansions, with a cameo from Oliver from his On-site.
Giant Conversations Episode #15
Topic Giant Mansions: How we bring a remote team together
Hosted by:
* Cameo from Oliver Thylmann
Main topic
On-sites and Mansions
Intro to Josh
Human Resources / HR Teams Involvement
- Why we do On-sites
- Planning and Logistics
- Benefits
- Retro's done in the past
- Slide Deck to Teams' mansions
- Has Team-Team noticed any "changes" in the team(s) after an onsite? (negative or positive but looking for positive of course)
On Location
- Program / Agenda During on-sites
- Activities (Planned vs. spontaneous)
- Locations we've been
- Frequency: (used to do 2 per year)
Team Mansions vs. Company On-sites
- History (One Villa in Mallorca)
- Budgets team coordination, why it's important to coordinate Giant Mansions
Personal - type questions:
- What makes our on-sites different?
- With an unlimited budget, what / where would you go and do?
Where we've been
https://www.giantswarm.io/hubfs/Illustrations/gs23-team-onsite-map-2023.svg
Further Reading
https://www.giantswarm.io/blog/all-work-all-play-the-giant-mansions