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| Thursday | An editor, a designer, an engineer, and a product person walk into a room… It sounds like the start of a corny joke, but increasingly we find ourselves in these types of situations - small, interdisciplinary teams working together to solve a problem. The thinking says - throw a lot of really smart people in a room and -magic!- they will figure it out! The reality is, it does work, but it’s extremely difficult. People misunderstand each other, and motivations and goals are not often articulated, leading to disarray. Working with new people is hard, and it’s especially hard when you have to move fast and you’re not all speaking the same language! But fear not - starting things off on the right foot can have huge payoffs - team buy-in, alignment, and trust. The goal is to get the team to move faster by getting some tough conversations out of the way. This is an interactive session in which participants will simulate this exact situation - participants will be given a problem prompt, break out into small, cross-disciplinary teams, then participate in kickoff exercises designed to force hard conversations and perhaps give participants a moment of self-reflection - "are you an order or chaos muppet?", hopes/fears/sacred cows, the road to nirvana, the pre-mortem - and more! These exercises work best for teams with 5-10 members with any combination of disciplines, but can be scaled up or down as needed. | Rosy Catanach, Sara Bremen Rabstenek | kickoff-kit | 75 minutes | y | Johnson | 2:30-3:45pm | thursday-pm-1 | Kickoff Kit: helping new teams move faster by aligning early | y |