What needs to be done for each stage

Now that you have your team assembled 🦸‍♂️, it’s time to start progressing the Chamber. To do that, you need to understand Chamber Stages and how to to work with your Sponsor to ensure your Chamber work is progressing.

To manage stages, we need to understand what is required of each stage. Each stage has a required input (why, what, how, results) in order for us to guide the flow of work from proposal to completion.

Defining these stages also helps us place defined review & support points between the MC and the Sponsor of the project. An MC can put a chamber up for review, and only a Sponsor can move it into the next stage.

Note: stages do not need to slow down simple, well understood chamber tasks. Moving between multiple stages can happen rapidly through one conversation in Discord.

Stage	Description
🌱Why	A chamber has been conjured, but it is not yet agreed to work on. Focus of stage? Decide if should proceed or not, Agree on why this chamber was proposed and it’s intended objectives Exploring a minimum necessary of what/how/result to better visualize the project & make a decision Engage & confirm a Sponsor Where work happens? Conversation focused on Discord chat, with the MC driving discussion around why + farming for dissent. ​ MC Commands: /chamber summon {role: sponsor-elect} {who: } ​ /chamber update {why: } ​ /chamber advance
🌱👁 Why-review	A chamber has been conjured, but it is not yet agreed to work on. ​ Focus of stage? Decide if should proceed or not, Agree on why this chamber was proposed and it’s intended objectives Exploring a minimum necessary of what/how/result to better visualize the project & make a decision Engage & confirm a Sponsor Where work happens? Conversation focused on Discord chat, with the MC driving discussion around why + farming for dissent. ​ MC Commands: /chamber summon {role: sponsor-elect} {who: } ​ /chamber update {why: } ​ /chamber advance
🔮 What	A Sponsor has approved the Why, we are now in the What phase. ​ Focus of stage? Align everyone to a crisp single idea (the what) Bring in necessary contributors for current and later stages (so they can begin tracking the concept & contribute) Where work happens? Discord chat and for more complex concepts, in a google doc. ​ MC Commands: /chamber update {what: } ​ /chamber advance
🔮👁 What-Review	The MC has moved the chamber into what-review. ​ Focus of stage? MC is asking the Sponsor to review the clarity of what & any linked documents in the chamber metadata Where work happens? Discord chat, in the thread for everyone to track and at times in DMs for 1:1 conversation. ​ Sponsor Commands: /chamber scry ​ /chamber advance
🧬 How	The MC has moved the chamber into what-review. ​ Focus of stage? MC is asking the Sponsor to review the clarity of what & any linked documents in the chamber metadata Where work happens? Discord chat, in the thread for everyone to track and at times in DMs for 1:1 conversation. ​ Sponsor Commands: /chamber scry ​ /chamber advance
🧬👁 How-Review	The MC has moved the chamber into How-Review. ​ Fundamentally the same as What-Review. The Sponsor will review the clarity of the how including any linked documents and ensure the team is aligned to a clear plan. ​ Sponsor Commands: /chamber scry ​ /chamber advance
⚡Results	The Sponsor approved How-Review and now we’re in Results phase, i.e., Execution mode. ​ Focus of stage? Execute on the how / specs Get the desired result to fulfil the what / why of the chamber Where work happens? Mostly out of Discord & docs. People will be coding, managing socials, whatever is necessary to get it done. ​ MC Commands: /chamber update {results: } ​ /chamber advance
⚡👁 Results-Review	The MC has moved the chamber into Execute-Review. ​ Fundamentally the same as What or How Review, but this time we are reviewing completed results. ​ The Sponsor will confirm the result listed in the chamber metadata is complete. ​ Sponsor Commands: /chamber scry ​ /chamber advance
🌕 Complete-Wrapping Up	The Sponsor moves the chamber to Complete once Results-Review is successful. ​ Sponsor Commands: /chamber advance
🌑Complete-Archive	The Sponsor moves the chamber to Complete-Archive once the project has had final sign off in the Funding Council Meeting.
📦Abandon-Archive	The Sponsor moves the chamber to Abandon if there is no further work to be done yet the result is not finished. ​ Sponsor Commands: /chamber update {stage: Abandon}