Duck Alignment Academy

Why does this meeting exist?

If you can’t come up with a sentence or two that says why you scheduled the meeting, you should consider what that implies.

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The idea of helping your competitors might be hard to accept, but when we work together, we all do better.

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The Flywheel Theory says that the long term sustainability of a community project depends on having someone who can keep the momentum going.

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Deadlines are easy to set and hard to meet. So how do you set deadlines that aren’t hard to meet? It’s not hard!

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The people discovering — and thus nominating — blocker candidates may not be intimately familiar with your project’s processes.

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At the OLF Conference, I’ll delivered “Your bug tracker and you” and held a book signing for “Program Management for Open Source Projects.”

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As your project grows, the community has to decide whether or not to maintain unified channels or separate them. How do you decide?

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You can save 40% on ebooks of Program Management for Open Source Projects when you use promo code turkeysale2022 at checkout.

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Taiga’s advanced kanban features made it a great tool to keep track of my work in the year and a half I wrote my book.

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Releasing software when it’s ready and a “YOLO” approach aren’t quite the same. While the latter is whimsical, the former has a plan.

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