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GC - #15 Giant Swarm On-sites & Mansions

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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:

  • Joshua Olson - Kerrigan
  • Tommy Hobin
    • * 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

            https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14CJxNU42BR1Re6mVcSjeMqh_Cdd_u_dQY4T1cxKS2Nc/edit#slide=id.g268ad0de9ad_1_6

            Further Reading

            https://www.giantswarm.io/blog/all-work-all-play-the-giant-mansions

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