One standing session every other week, a handful of conversations in August, and a review in mid-October.
Times in South Africa (SAST) and US Pacific. Live sessions sit in your morning.
The times behind this link are my real openings, already checked across my calendars. Pick a slot and it books straight in, so nobody has to triangulate availability by hand.
Slots sit in the US morning, which is late afternoon in Cape Town: the fairest shared window for this team. For the fixed group sessions below, hold the dates shown instead.
Avery, Stephanie, Kristin and Shabnam. Sixty minutes. Agenda here.
With Avery and whoever owns the workflow we're on. This becomes the build session in September and October. Fortnightly, starting the week of Aug 10.
The 17:00 SAST slot is 08:00 in California and 18:00 in Nairobi, which is the fairest shared window across the people involved. If it's a bad hour for anyone, say so and I'll move it.
Narrow the first build candidate and plan the architecture work.
5-10 minutes per person, screen share. Anyone with a project shows it; everyone gets to see what's already being built. Timed earlier in the US morning so it works across time zones.
A few 45-minute conversations with the people closest to the work we pick, once the show-and-tell has given us the broad view.
Walking the workflow end to end, if useful after the 1:1. Feeds the automation map.
Drafted through the standing sessions. The grants automation map feeds it.
Pressure-test the architecture note and agree the build priorities together.
One workflow, built with the person who owns it, through the standing session.
Shaping the fellows phase with Avery, ready for later.
What got done, what we learned, what the next phase holds.
Holds are confirmed with each person before they're fixed. If a date doesn't work, moving it is easier than sitting through it.