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layout: post
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title: "Focus Thursdays"
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author: boo
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categories: [ team, bahamut, agreement ]
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image: assets/images/focus-thursdays.jpg
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description: "An agreement about reserving time to focus keeping distractions at bay."
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Focus day is an alternative to the more common _No meetings day_. We put emphasis in
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the meaning of focus, not the meeting schedule.
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## Focus Day
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Sometimes we need to focus in some work that involves entering
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[the flow or the zone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)). Some other
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times we need to look things from a distance in order to plan or cooperate with another
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person in order to unblock something.
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What they have in common is the lack of external interruptions not related with the
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task at issue.
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## Meetings or no meetings
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In general, any meeting that could be scheduled another day, should not happen
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during Focus Day. Planning, status and brainstorming meetings are examples for
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this category.
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In particular, meetings to unblock an issue or to pair in order to solve a task
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that one is focusing on are encouraged.
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## Calendar event
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We can create a calendar event that will be spawned along all Thursdays, so
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that will be a visible indicator for planned meetings that it is the day
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were those should not happen.
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## But I need to
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Focus Days are not mandatory and rigid, the intent is to create a safe structure
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for people that need to focus, and that will not be reprimanded in any way for
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rejecting to have a meeting during this day. If for some reason we do not need to
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focus one Thusday, we might want to select that specific day in the calendar and
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mark our attendance as nope.

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