Is your team supergroup-ready?

A Scientific Supergroup is three seats on one question, with a coding agent in the room: someone who owns the question, an analyst who specifies and checks, and a developer who wrangles the agent. It works when the question, the data and the people are ready at the same time.

Eight questions say how close your team is, and what is missing. Answer for how things are, not how the org chart says they should be. Nothing is recorded until you choose to send it.

1. Q1Is there a question someone owns?

   There are plenty of good questions, but none is anyone's in particular.There is a question, but it changes shape each time it is discussed.There is a clear question, and I know who asked it.Someone owns the question and would steer the work themselves.
2. Q2What about the data?

   I would have to find out whether suitable data exists.I know it exists, but getting access takes months.We hold it, or it is public, but nobody has looked closely yet.It is known and accessible, and someone knows its quirks.
3. Q3Where would the answer go?

   Nowhere in particular yet.Into a report.To a board, a committee or a paper, with a date.Straight into a decision that is waiting for it.
4. Q4Who is comfortable with git and a terminal?

   Nobody I work with uses either.One person has used git, mostly to clone and pull.A developer commits and branches daily, but has not driven an agent.Someone already keeps permissions, commits and resets while an agent works.
5. Q5How does analysis get checked now?

   Whoever has time does it, and checks it by eye.An analyst writes the code and reviews the output.An analyst writes down what a sound result must satisfy, before starting.An analyst writes checks that any output must pass, and reads the failures.
6. Q6How much time can the domain expert give?

   They read drafts when they can, often weeks later.They join a meeting every month or so.They could give an afternoon if we booked it ahead.They could sit with us for a day or two and steer.
7. Q7How does work move between people now?

   It passes along in handoffs, over months.It moves at the pace of the meeting cycle.We work together in small groups, then write up separately.The people who matter already work on it together, live.
8. Q8What do IT or policy say about coding agents?

   They are not allowed on our machines.Nobody has asked, and I am not sure who decides.Allowed with conditions, such as public data or a separate machine.There is a written policy, and agents already run under it.

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