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It’s a shame because Zoom has good fundamental tech.
Source? All I hear is about how buggy and insecure the platform is. Edit: source, https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/google-bans...
i think zoom is also the problem
> Weekly status updates? Project kick-offs? Quarterly and monthly planning? Retrospectives? All are carried out asynchronously, in the form of structured write-ups in Nuclino. Another criticism of a controversial tech that is actually a pitch for a product. It's a Hacker News staple. Maybe I'm just getting too cynical.
Some workflows require synchronous communications. Meetings, in person or virtual, are great for these. Other workflows work asynchronously. E-mail, IM and the like are great for these. Post-War America erred on the side of meetings, forcing asynchronous flows into artificial bottlenecks. Silicon Valley seems to have over-corrected, replacing ten-minute meetings with full-day Slack threads. Trying to force asynchrono…
Seems like a master decision record in confluence, discussing finer points in a private slack channel, and demo and tie-breaking plus sync with busy or non text thinkers with ad hoc video meetings works well together. Another thing is quick prototypes of ux or architecture designs in codesandbox.
These all work well, but it would be great to have less overhead. Even on a small team though there are so many gaps it feels impossible to reconcile without all these.
Anyone have a team decision making workflow for spinning up new projects that is more efficient?
Zoom's technical details are a problem too.
The meeting I find the biggest time waster is the "what I did yesterday, what am I doing today" meetings. Nothing better than sitting on a 45 minutes call while 15 people try to justify their existence to the pm on the fly. I find a slack channel called #status-updates works wonders. It persists, it's much faster to consume, it's searchable, and you don't have to read it if you don't need to.
seems like your standup team is too big.
The meeting I find the biggest time waster is the "what I did yesterday, what am I doing today" meetings. Nothing better than sitting on a 45 minutes call while 15 people try to justify their existence to the pm on the fly. I find a slack channel called #status-updates works wonders. It persists, it's much faster to consume, it's searchable, and you don't have to read it if you don't need to.
I do those every day, they rarely last more than 20 minutes.
Typically, though, goals are unclear and constantly shifting. From that flows multiple tasks that are all high priority up to the point they suddenly become irrelevant. In such an environment communication needs to be continuous. Continuous communication is by necessity synchronous.