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Navigating Team Friction

Lara Hogan, Co-founder of Wherewithall

Teams go through Tuckman's Stages of Group Development
- Forming: New state; team will have roughly-planned goals and objectives
- Storming: Friction arises as team members start to learn how to work together (this is a normal and necessary part of forming a group)
- Norming: Members start to resolve differences
- Performing: Flow state; members start to become productive
- A team can restart this process when there is new management, a new team structure and/or new team members
Friction is normal in early stages, but can act as a distraction and a team needs to resolve differences in order to move projects forward

Here's a rundown of some of the talks at Oscon 2017. Some slides are available here.

Many issues (like climate change) don't become issues until someone discovers a trend in data, so data scientists have an obligation to act on their discoveries.
Williams recommends data.world for finding and sharing cleaned public data sets.

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