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Had about 10 hours of meetings this week; this is on the heavier side. Serious question. How do other folks get collaborative work done on big projects without
by thex10 10y ago
Had about 10 hours of meetings this week; this is on the heavier side.
Serious question. How do other folks get collaborative work done on big projects without having meetings to discuss/brainstorm/check in/etc? There seems to be a strong attitude here of "I am working on $THING, therefore leave me alone unless it's an emergency," but how does that actually work when $THING gets complex, malleable, ill-defined, risky, changed, etc?
- Karunamon 10y agoAsynchronous communication along with a culture that ensures its used. Times that you're working on $THING and a matter related to it legitimately requires you and n other people dropping what you're doing to talk about it synchronously are very rare.
- ryanSrich 10y agoTeams really shouldn't be _that_ big. Having a daily standup should be no more than 15 minutes, even if you have 10 developers on a single team. If you're seeing a product evolve in complexity that much during the development phase I'd look elsewhere for issues. Those high-touch brainstorming/problem solving phases should be worked out well in advance of engineering. If you're speaking to those phases then I've found those are done much better in person. Even for remote teams (I'm remote as well) getting together in person for large project kickoffs is vitally important. Collaboration can be done async, but I'm a firm believer for in person meetings for conceptualizing those "new" things.