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svg: faces/oddbird
alt: |
Illustrated faces:
Carl, Kit, Stacy, Miriam, Sondra, Erica, and Jonny
Jonny, Stacy, David, Sondra, Miriam, James, and Ed
summary: |
OddBird was founded in 2008 by three siblings --
[Miriam](/authors/miriam/),
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While owners will have final say in major company decisions,
we want the entire team involved in the conversation.

- We have bi-weekly video check-ins
- We have daily video check-ins
with the full team
to discuss what’s working,
and what might need to change.
using [Google Meet][google meet]
to discuss questions,
client projects, what’s working,
or what might need to change.
- We have “all hands” work retreats
twice a year,
for more intensive in-person planning and playing.
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and pays a daily rate
(currently \$400/day)
during the retreat.
(For the safety of our Birds and our communities,
due to the COVID pandemic
our retreats are currently being conducted remotely.)
- We pay for internal OddBird work required to grow the company,
or improve our processes.
If you have ideas you’d like to help implement,
bring a proposal to the team,
with an estimated budget for the project.
We’ll try to make it happen!

[google meet]: https://meet.google.com/

### Giving Back

Every month,
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We encourage you to take time away from work,
and turn off notifications while you are out —
but we also need to plan around your absence.
- Respond to questions in [Slack][slack] and [Trello][trello]
in a timely fashion.
- Respond to questions in [Slack][slack]
and [GitHub Projects][github projects] in a timely fashion.
Questions may be asked at any time of day or night or weekend
(so turn off notifications if you don’t want to be disturbed),
but we only expect participation during our normal working hours
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Always err on the side of communicating more.

[slack]: https://oddbird.slack.com/
[trello]: https://trello.com/
[github projects]: https://docs.github.com/en/issues/planning-and-tracking-with-projects/learning-about-projects/about-projects

### Scheduling

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and provide context for your decisions.
There is never only one valid solution,
but a conversation often helps strengthen the final product.
- We rely heavily on [Trello][trello]
- We rely heavily on [GitHub Projects][github projects]
for managing our process across a remote team.
You can look in Trello
You can look in GitHub Projects
to find what user stories are available or assigned to you,
what the priorities are,
and what others are working on.
Keep Trello up-to-date as you work,
Keep GitHub Projects up-to-date as you work,
so that others can see the status of a story,
and any relevant conversations and decisions
that have been made about its implementation.
- We use [Dropbox][dropbox] to store
client project and internal documentation,
and [Google Drive][google drive] to store
meeting notes and documents that require
team collaboration or comments.

[dropbox]: https://www.dropbox.com/
[google drive]: https://www.google.com/drive/

### Finding Clients

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