The information here will help you:
Working in the open is as simple as sharing your work with others - inside or outside your organisation - and using work that’s been done by others to help you with your project.
‘Work’ might be an asset - such as a set of user personas or new code - or it might be learnings and reflections from someone who’s done something that you’re thinking of doing. By sharing and learning from others, we can make more progress, more quickly and help more people. And of course, it saves money and time.
Therefore we want to ensure they are available for reuse/repurposing. Please email any assets ready for sharing to [email protected]
We like to work in the open and encourage others to do the same. Working in the open has a lot of benefits - and that’s as well as making you feel good. By learning how to communicate what you’re doing and learning, you'll be able to do things like get buy-in from stakeholders internally, put together stronger funding bids or get input from your peers in the community.
Working in the open is reciprocal - just as you benefit from others’ work, so others benefit from you sharing your stories (and assets). You’re ready to share when you’ve learned something and you’re able to tell someone else about it. And don’t worry, it doesn’t have to be polished or perfect.
We ask teams to create weeknotes, weekly project tweets, or an end of project blog to share their experience and learning with others.
This Open Working Toolkit gives charities and funders the best resources for learning why and how to work in the open, share work and reuse work from others: https://wearecast.gitbook.io/open-working-toolkit
To become a writer on Catalyst Medium please check out this guide. Further guides below.