The Agility Collective

The inner workings of a rather different consulting company

Communication

Our main internal communication channels are:

  • Our Unconference twice per year.
  • Pulse meetings (or mini-conferences). These happen about twice per year, in between the unconferences. Typically a half day or whole day with some kind of theme, like “how we make decisions” or “how we handle conflict” or “how we run courses”.
  • Team mailing list - a single mailing list with everyone on it. We use simple email conventions to separate must-read stuff from general discussions, and the Bun protocol to route client inquiries to the right consultant.
  • Board meetings every month.
  • Zoom for regular online video meetings (often between teams)
  • Slack for chattier stuff.
  • Trello for collaborating on activities

Most decisions are made, and most problems solved, in one of the above forums.

A lot of good communication will happen at our hack-summit, although the purpose is more to geek out together than to communicate :)

Where we store info:

  • Google Docs - we used it for almost everything now-a-days. Our main doc is the dashboard
  • Dropbox - we have a dropbox account that we used for shared docs that don’t fit in google docs.
  • GitHub - a github organization account for shared code and, well, the DNA that you are reading right now.

How we communicate with the outside world:

  • Our website - theagilitycollective.com
  • Our blog - theagilitycollective.com/blog
  • A mailing list for our customers and course participants, we send information about upcoming courses about once or twice per quarter.
  • Twitter - our twitter handle is @123agility
  • Linkedin
  • Through speaking and workshops at confrences and events
  • At local (public) meet-ups
  • … but the biggest channel of communication is of course the personal and informal channels - our members own tweeting, blogging, and talking to friends and customers. Together we have a huge network!