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Async is the way to go here. The only time an engineer should have to care what time zone somebody is in is when it's an actual emergency.
by bfuclusion 6y ago
Async is the way to go here. The only time an engineer should have to care what time zone somebody is in is when it's an actual emergency.
- hosh 6y agoYeah. The engineering team I am on uses the [async] tag to make async Slack communications explicit.
- bfuclusion 6y agoSlack is really poorly built for async workflows though. That's why in my product I have all communication be async, and figure out who needs to get notifications (also async) from their role in the interaction. For example, if you're the owner of a story and someone asks a question you get notified, and the asker gets notified when you reply, but everyone else gets to keep their sanity. I also structure comments and require you tag them with the purpose of the comments so people know what it is up front (question, sugestion, todo, etc). That really keeps the stress levels down.