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Re: New Rookie Team-Los Angeles-Advice

Team communication has several key points:
  1. Information sent from the team captains/lead mentors to the whole team
  2. Coordination across each department/division/whatever you use
  3. Feedback/commentary from team members
  4. project management (and a team always has multiple mostly independent projects going)
  5. Detailed conversation (give and take) within each project that eventually leads to decisions

You may very well find some additional tracks you need to add, but at a minimum, ensure that your team intra-communication supports the cases above. Remember that an effective communications plan means that:
  1. Everyone who needs to know information gets it, in a timely manner
  2. Very few people who do not need to know information get it

How to meet these requirements simultaneously is something I will admit straight up that I do not know how to do in any general sense, but that I have always worked towards, both professionally and as an FRC mentor. Rank #1 above #2, but absolutely don't ignore #2 - everyone has a personal information overload threshold. Once you cross that, people stop getting the information they need to know.
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