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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:
In every sprint, participants will find a collective workshop with a specific topic relevant to the development of the solution in the program's calendar. All 9 teams will be invited to take part. A mentor(s) specialized in the topic will hold the session. These sessions usually will start with a presentation of the topic followed by a Q&A session at the end, so that participants can interact.
Participants and mentors will be part of deploy(impact)'s slack workspace as the main communication channel.
When participants have any questions about a specific topic, they can submit them through the relevant channel via this form (please create a copy for each different topic you need help with ). Experienced mentors on the topic will be added to the channel and will be able to follow up on a rolling basis. The mentor available to support will respond to the inquiry and follow up. The different topics/slack channels available to request support:
- #architectural-design
- #backend-development
- #data-science
- #frontend-development
- #pitch
- #project-management
- #ux-ui design
IMPORTANT! Availability to meet with a mentor: participants will fill in the form above to request support and share it via the relevant slack channel. If the request is relevant to your expertise and you are willing to help, you can decide how you prefer to follow up. It can be directly via slack or scheduling a 30min to 1hr video call. When you schedule a video call, please set up directly with the participant/team the date and time when you are all available and the meeting link you will use.
We suggest using teamup to schedule the session inside deploy(impact)'s calendar, giving the possibility to share it with other teams that might have the same question via TeamUp
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: Mentors will use this calendar 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 the teams asking for support, you can use this link
- Simply schedule a meeting inside of Teamup (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.
- Once you have the meeting setup (you will need to add your own video conferencing link), share it via the same slack channel where the help was requested.
For useful suggestions on using TeamUp, you can read this guide.