Changelog

For every change to the handbook, follow these steps:

  1. increment the version depended on the size & impact of your change. If unsure, ask in the io-handbook Slack channel.
  2. add the date of your change to the headline
  3. per change, write a change note as unordered list item preceded with the section you updated (e.g. guidelines/secondary employment:)

v2.1.4 - Apr 16, 2025

  • guidelines/team-events: new channel based process (instead of activity form) to organize team events

v2.1.3 - Apr 2, 2025

  • information and education/trainings: added net info to training budget

v2.1.2 - Mar 31, 2025

  • career/feedback: added instructions for the BIO feedback method
  • career/feedback: added instructions for the feedforward canvas method

v2.1.1 - Mar 19, 2025

  • how we work/management: added information about the leadership learning path

v2.1.0 - Mar 17, 2025

  • how we work/management: removed softskills for managers and added information about new management career path

v.2.0.13 - Mar 10, 2025

  • how we work/psychological safety: removed lead community and replaced it with manager & peer in the important section

v2.0.12 - Feb 17, 2025

  • tools/slack: added guidelines for Slack guests and Slack connect
  • tools/slack: added information on how to contact Slack admins

v2.0.11 - Feb 17, 2025

  • guidelines/onsite workshops: new page with guidelines

v2.0.9, v2.0.10 - Feb 13, 2025

  • tools/slack: added new opsteam support workflow to Slack guidelines

v2.0.8 - Feb 5, 2025

  • benefits: specified referral bonus guidelines for team members to better decide, if a candidate might be a fit

v2.0.7 - Feb 3, 2025

  • added info regarding employee discount (how to communicate that you're eligible) in the benefits section

v2.0.6 - Jan 21, 2025

  • changed training costs to training budget and added new guidelines accordingly
  • added guidelines on possible email name schemes for company addresses

v2.0.5 - Jan 21, 2025

  • added guidelines for christmas eve and new year's eve

v2.0.4 - Jan 13, 2025

  • added guidelines on how to communicate absence, e.g. vacation or long-term sickness

v2.0.3 - Jan 9, 2025

  • hallway radio is no English expression. Replaced it with office grapevine, meaning Flurfunk in German

v2.0.2 - Dec 3, 2024

  • removed obligation to talk to your manager the contents of peer feedback
  • added context to peer feedback that it is the starting point of the yearly career development

v2.0.1 - Nov 13, 2024

  • introduced a changelog to the handbook
  • updated readme.md to fit current Slack channel structure, not include redundant information, and clarify contribution guidelines to the handbook

v2.0.0 - Nov 12, 2024

  • each topic that’s worth being found with one click now has its own menu item, e.g. there are no topics "hidden" on the overview pages of guidelines or information & education sections

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For a change history of older handbook versions, please check the 2023 and 2024 assembly slides or the handbook's main branch commit history