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Mentors
women++ wants to ensure that deploy(impact)'s participants have enough resources/ support that allows them to learn and develop their skills in tech further. Mentors include volunteers coming from the different sponsoring companies as well as the women++ community.
Mentors help participants with their projects on a weekly basis, bringing expertise particularly relevant to the process of an agile tech development program within their own areas of expertise. These competencies include the following roles assigned to participants.
Minimum of 1hr/week for 6 weeks from October 8 (Opening ceremony) till November 19 (Project presentations & Award ceremony)
The mentoring can take place in several forms:
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Throughout the 6-week sprints, there will be a biweekly Product Owner Feedback Session with each individual team and their product owners. Participants’ questions from each of these sessions will be documented and made available for mentors to review in their own dedicated weekly time slots.
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Ad hoc follow-ups with a specific project team, through the centralized communication platform (Agorize’s chat) during your dedicated time slots.
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A participant might need mentoring which matches the skills of a mentor, it could be interesting to pair them for as long as required (including the full duration of the program), to see their development. Support would be given during your mentor’s dedicated time slots, on a weekly basis.
You can stay in touch with participants via a dedicated slack space during deploy(impact), as the main communication channel.
When participants have any questions about a specific topic, they can submit them through the relevant channel and you will be able to follow up on a rolling basis.
These sessions are scheduled individually between you and a team to cover a predefined topic. This session can be of 30 min to 1 hr, depending on what's agreed with the team.
This year we are going TeamUp as a tool to manage the events or simply schedule meetings.
There are five different calendars:
- Mentors > Workshops: This calendar brings together all the collective workshops in which teams can participate.
- General events: Get Together, Opening and Closing Ceremony
- Mentors > Individual Sessions: This calendar will be used by mentors to create the necessary meetings to support the various teams.
- Participants > Learning Lunch: This timetable will be used by participants to schedule times for sharing knowledge with other participants. Preferably during the lunch break and lasting about 30 minutes.
- Wikimedia > Collective Sessions / Individual Sessions: Those are the calendars with all scheduled sessions with project owners or users.
In order to create a meeting with teams, you can use your own link
- Simply schedule a meeting (you can choose to set up different events or simply the one decided with the team)
- Remember to click the "options" button inside the event in order to enable the "Sign Up" option. In this way, participants will have the chance to register.
For any useful suggestions on how to use TeamUp, you can read this guide.