Frontend Team
Meet the front-end team – the people responsible for why the platform interface looks so polished and functional.
We asked, they answered
A few questions we know you were dying to ask our Backend team
What is your first action of the day/week?
We start the week by checking on what we didn’t finish off last week and what has come in as high priority.
We don’t have a daily sprint, we trust each other as a team to organise our own workloads.
What do you think is the most important action of the day?
The most important action of the day is to check Github and see that status of reviews, if there are any new bugs etc.
What is your mascot? The animal, vehicle, plant etc. that best represents you as a team?
A penguin!
Do you have a team Mantra/Motto?
Either: Make It Work > Make It Right > Make It Fast
Or: We have style, we have grace, we paste memes all over the place.
How do you communicate best in the team? Via video chat or written communication?
GitHub, Zulip, or “in-person” on Google Meet
Our preferred method of communication is written – either on Github or Zulip – but we will have a call if it clears things up more efficiently.
How do you make decisions? quickly or slowly? Individually or collectively? By vote? Give examples of moments you’ve made good decisions together.
We have multiple means of making collective decisions
- Github discussions (slow).
- Zulip comments and polls (quick..ish).
- Proof of Concept PRs (slow).
Additionally, one person might make a proposal and come up with an idea which they then put forward to the team. We make the final decision through discussion.
What makes you a good team?
We are an autonomous team which likes to have fun whilst we ship.
We like it when our ideas are challenged.
We are comedy geniuses.
What do you like most about your daily/weekly/monthly life together?
The way we collaborate and communicate, send each other memes, learn new things from each other and hear different ideas that everybody comes up with. We’re completely open to new ideas.
Of course we also love the individual personalities of the team 🙂
When you are facing a problem, how do you solve it ?
Percussive maintenance (the old school method of hitting it with your hand).
In reality we mostly seek support from the other members of the team if we are really stuck on a problem. It’s great to have a different perspective or at least another pair of eyes to look at the issue.
Describe the way you share knowledge amongst the team members
On Zulip (our chat tool) → we have a dedicated stream with this in mind.
Do you have traditions? If yes, please describe them in a couple of sentences.
Notifying others Zulip of significant codebase changes and celebrating merging of them on Zulip.
