Ceremonies

Ceremonies#

While each strategic partner has unique needs, dedicated delivery management includes the following key ceremonies:

  • Kickoff meeting for your community, combined with onboarding

  • Monthly or quarterly strategy session for your community

  • Co-funding kickoffs for one or many communities who support specific feature delivery

  • Periodic showcases and consortium-building with other strategic partner communities

  • Acknowledgement of the impact we enable together in our stakeholder and public communications

Kickoff meeting#

Goals of the meeting: understand the community’s strategy and desired outcomes, establish first priorities, points of contact, and how we work together. This meeting can happen alongside community onboarding to 2i2c hub(s).

Agenda:

  • Most important priorities for the community - could be feature work, strategic co-creation, upcoming events and dates where you need hubs

  • Engagement plan with 2i2c - set up meetings, etc

  • How to reach us to ask for help, feedback, etc

  • How we’ll communicate with you - following GH, Slack, etc

Who attends: 2i2c delivery partner, Community champion & team members either requests

Strategy session / check in#

Goals of the meeting: clarity about what work we’re doing (including updates from both sides), alignment on strategic priorities for your specific community, celebrate wins & problem-solve together

Agenda (may be monthly or quarterly):

  • Updates on 2i2c work you’re interested in

  • Thoughts on next priorities for your community

  • Anywhere we’re stuck and can help each other get unstuck

  • Input on the next quarterly showcase & prioritization call we host for all communities Who attends: 2i2c delivery partner and/or at least one engineer, Community champion & team members either requests

Co-funding Kickoff#

Goals of the meeting: with one or many communities co-funding a given piece of work, we want to make sure everyone understands the scope of work, that communities have a clear channel for design input, and we understand any implicit or explicit deadlines

Agenda:

  • Review scope and approach

  • Identify any critical external dependencies

  • Build a coalition - get to know each other and our goals

  • Define ways of working, demo reels, etc.

Note - this meeting may be folded into a strategy session if a single community is co-funding work

Who attends: 2i2c delivery partner, product lead, at least one engineer, Community champions and technical contacts from co-funding communities

Showcases and consortia (for all strategic member communities)#

Goals of the meetings:

  • Validate shared problems and co-design solutions

  • Learn from and share accomplishments with other strategic member communities

  • Stay current on new 2i2c platform and service features

  • Provide input - including co-funding - on the upcoming 2i2c roadmap

Agenda:

  • Roadmap updates and discussion

  • Storytelling - 1-2 experience reports from strategic member communities

  • 2i2c showcase

Who attends: 2i2c Product & Services team, strategic partner community champions & the people they select, 2i2c Business Development team