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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 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.
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 asynchronous flows into synchronous constructs introduces unnecessary delays, as the slowest process sets the pace. It also increases overhead, since resource C is occupied while A and B sync. Trying to force synchronous flows into asynchronous constructs introduces mistakes through mis-communications. It also increases overhead, since an additional layer of verifying everyone got critical information is introduced.
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.
- 45 minutes: it should be 5-10 minutes, 15 on a bad day, and literally never 45.
- 15 people: this is probably just too many people in a single standup. Based on my experience, it's quite likely this can be split up into 2-3 teams that can have more autonomy, and meetings like standups will become far easier to run and far more efficient.
> 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.
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.
> 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.
You are not being too cynical. I think just yesterday there was a post about some person complaining about Google Analytics and it was a pitch for their product.
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.
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.
"what am I doing today" -- not sure yet