- One on Ones to discuss roadblocks and thoughts every week.

- Issue tracking as a common place to describe what needs to be done and thoughts / details on how it is solved. Something lightweight like Trello is ideal

- A Kanban board so people have an organised way to pick up new issues when low on work

- A weekly showoff meeting where there are few 5 minute presentations and a 30 minute "I did something really cool or learned something really cool"

- 6 month task split into 1 month ish deliverables, with a flexible deadline for each. Presentation of finished work each deliverable.