fastn leads program helps students stand out. It gives people an opportunity to work in an environment that they find themselves in when they join a company.

This program helps people get experience leading team of people, selecting a project/product to work on, stakeholder management, recruiting team mates, breaking down project into tasks, assigning tasks to team, tracking progress, updating stakeholders about the progress, motivating team, unblocking team members stuck on problems, updating project timelines if they are getting delayed, quality testing deliverables, code reviewing work done by the team mate, creating internal and external documentation, release notes etc.

Once you finish the champions program you will be added to the #fastn-champions channel on Discord, where you can request to be added as a lead.

As a lead, you have to form a team. You have to pick a team name, and we will create a channel and role for your team. You have to then recruit for your team. You can look for people in our Discord, no spamming. Once a team is formed, we will announce about the team in Announcement channel and ask people to reply as a comment in that announcement to join the team.

As a team lead you have to create a team page, and share the projects you want the team to be working on.

Once a team is created, we will create a private channel for your team in our Discord.

The purpose of the team is to deliver projects. As team lead it is going to be your job to create the project. A few projects are available from fastn team, as part of project based learning program, which may be paid. Other sample projects are also available.

The project you pick will help entice people to join your team, so you have to pick great projects.

Projects also must come with written documentation about how the project will work, screenshots and designs. Architecture etc should all be included in as much detail as possible. We will be asking people to evaluate your projects and based on quality of projects pick the team.

Each project must also have a video overview of the project.

Each team member, including team lead is expected to spend about 10 hrs a week (individually).

While you have the flexibility to create a team of any size, it's recommended that your team consists of 3-4 members. This size allows for effective team management, ensuring you can provide each member with the attention they deserve.

Each team lead has to create a YouTube channel for uploading team related videos.

Each team has to create a mailing list, and send weekly update to people who subscribe to it.

Each team has to create a twitter account and post routine updates etc.

We will have a channel #demo-days, publicly visible to everyone, only team leads will have posting rights.

As a team lead, it is your responsibility to conduct a weekly meeting to determine your team's objectives for the week. The planning meeting for the demo day should be recorded and shared in the #demo-days channel.

Likewise, at the end of each week, share a brief video (max 30 mins) showcasing your team's deliverables. Ideally, this video should include live demos of the work completed by each team member, focusing on live demos rather than verbal updates.

For each project there has to be a page maintained by the team, and it has to be updated whenever there is significant progress or event happens related to the project.