![]() We mostly mean meetings that are large, compulsory and regularly scheduled.īut we fancy a lot any ad hoc calls, with 2-3 participants max, whenever someone feels like they need it and the other one doesn’t mind. We’ve shared a lot of content on why meetings are suboptimal in most situations. Less scheduled meetings, more one-off 1-1 calls The default was just to keep doing it myself and no one would be offended if there wasn’t any response to my messages. It wouldn’t happen though, if I weren’t overcommunicating, i.e. But perhaps someone is around, has already dealt with that and doesn’t mind being interrupted at the moment - in such situation they can offer to help and this is what happened in this particular situation and I probably saved an hour or two. By default I’m just communicating my moves for the purpose of rubber-duck-debugging. I just kept communicating what I’m doing step on a channel where everyone has access, but I didn’t expect anyone to read. I would probably do it sooner or later with more or less googling and that was the plan. You’re helping yourself, because if you’re encountering a problem for which a teammate knows a quicker solution, he can just jump in.Įxample: one day I had to set up assets compilation on CI. ![]() You’re helping your teammates to stay updated with your progress, without waiting for the daily standup.You’re helping yourself, because you’re effectively rubber-duck debugging.Turn yourself into -verbose mode and keep actively communicating whatever you’re doing to progress with your task at hand. When working on a project, don’t defer communication until you’re stuck or until you achieve something noteworthy. Post anything related to your life: going on a hike, read something interesting, buying a piece of hardware and needing help - post it and let others chime in. Treat this channel as your own blog, which is just published internally in your company, with your teammates comments inlined. Set up personal off-topic channels on Slack Here’s how we’ve always dealt with that: 1. ![]() I guess not everyone is happy about that, partially because of all that accidental human interaction lost. Nowadays most of us need to work remotely.
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