# Status Swarms Swarms follow a structured approach to developing features. These include: - Research - Specifications / Planning - Implementation - Communication / Post-mortem ## Getting Started For new swarms: - Copy and Paste [TEMPLATE.md](https://github.com/status-im/swarms/blob/master/TEMPLATE.md) into [notes.status.im](https://notes.status.im) - Define Contributors - Define Rough summary - [Timebox](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeboxing) (approx) `Research` - Submit to [this repo](https://github.com/status-im/swarms) as a pull request. For existing swarms: - Go to the file in Github - Click edit and commit