Design System Team/Norms

Group norms are a set of agreements about how members will work with each other and how the group will work overall. These agreed-upon behaviors allow the team to increase its collective performance through healthy debate and clarity of purpose and roles.

—Sabina Nawaz, https://hbr.org/2018/01/how-to-create-executive-team-norms-and-make-them-stick

Design System Team Norms

1. We aim for clear, visible decision-making authority and ownership.
2. We make knowledge, decisions, and history discoverable and accessible.
3. We document action items.
4. We leverage synchronous meetings to align, plan, and break down work.
5. We leverage asynchronous tools (e.g., Slack) for status updates.
6. We leverage Phabricator to break down goals into small, actionable pieces.
7. We consolidate long Phabricator comment threads into summaries in task descriptions.
8. We leverage small task forces for certain workstreams, as opposed to full-team discussions for everything.
9. We are OK with unknowns.
10. We call "time-outs" to realign on priorities where needed.