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Group Chat: The Best Way to Stress Out Your Team

Post by davidmckenna » Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 8:29 PM UTC

Group Chat: The Best Way to Stress Out Your Team
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Re: Group Chat: The Best Way to Stress Out Your Team

Post by throwaway888abc » Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 8:57 PM UTC

Great points. Unfortunately, some people doesn't or just don't want understand async communication flow :)

Re: Group Chat: The Best Way to Stress Out Your Team

Post by karmakaze » Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 9:30 PM UTC

We basically have three channels per team.

  - an 'ATC' channel for communicating outside the team
  - a dev channel for team members and honorary members
  - an offtopic channel for chat

All three are mostly async with new code reviews/reminders posted to the dev channel. There are other forms of communication but these are the day-to-day ones. Any significant discussions/findings get documented elsewhere.

This simple process works pretty well, but I guess it's because people follow the expected conventions which may take a while to develop.

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