Parabol's Consent-based Slack Decision-Making Workflow

Installation

1. Open Slack
2. Click on the dropdown in the upper-left
3. Select Workflow Builder
4. Click Import and upload the workflow file

Usage

It's recommended you add the workflow to a channel named #decisions or #governance. When the workflow is active, it will communicate with the user on their Slackbot channel, starting by asking the user to give a link to a proposal for a decision to be made.

When a decision has been made—assuming there are no objections—it's up to the proposer to add the decision to an appropirate knowledge base (e.g. a product like Guru, Confluence, Notion, etc. So that the decision is easily documented, searchable and discoverable by team mates in the future.

Video

For a video explanation of how this work flow works, watch this video

Technical notes

This workflow also emits newline-delimited data on a private channel (in our instance, governance_zapier) for easy integration with Zapier. This allows us to set up automations around the creation, progress, and completion of consent decisions.

Data is formatted as:

thread_location_parameters
written_proposal_url
author_name
proposal_channel
proposal_title
consent_decision_round

For example:

channel_id=C3X4KU0NM&ts=1633394616.041500
https://docs.google.com/document/d/18s_o3Jx5ML61sd5FVyLlHxwYL2-B8Tfc9C9Fr1Qakh0/edit#
@jrhusney
#t_exco_gov
2021 Q4 Strategy
Clarifying Questions

Change Log

See the repository's CHANGELOG.md.

Contributing

Please hit us up with Issues to ask questions, bugs, enhancements, or Pull Requests if you make improvements to this workflow

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