NBIT Social Contract
General - January 6, 2021
Meeting
- Notify about absence in the meeting
- Attend the meeting on time
- Use Skype for scrum
- Meeting time should be limited to 1 hr
- Follow the instructions for the meeting if communicated
- No meetings without a clear agenda
Communication
- Open and honesty
- Communicate via slack for text messages and Skype for calls
- Communicate on Jira ticket; if any confusions arise, rather than waiting for meetings to discuss those problems.
- Silly question could be asked in case of any confusions
- Do not hesitate to ask for help if you are stuck in something
- Clear communication about leaves and updates to the team
- Rectify hardware issues before communication
- Share a greeting as soon as you enter the group call or a meeting, could be text greeting also
Ways of Working
- Focus on quality rather than quantity
- Avoid bias and be fair to everyone
- Appreciate team member for their effort
- Notify the team before the deadline if any task couldn’t be completed in time
- Initiate the team talks outside of team building and work-related communication(personal connection development with members) – hallway, group activities can be done
- Communicate methods of improvements within the company or software development
- Channel to ask for help or initiate discussions when problems arise at work
- Go through documentation and understand the basics of technology
- Maintain a document in confluence if you have worked on feature cards. It will help others and yourself in the future.
- Show empathy
- Work as a team
Issues at work
- Working from home for a long time may have caused moral/motivation issues
- Encourage everyone to contribute in meetings even if it is not perfect
- Electricity and internet issues
- Chances of disturbing colleagues while in call with the clients in the open office environment.
- Distraction at home