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How do you avoid meetings with a distributed part time team? Any hints or best practices? Working, part time, with a remote team and seem to have 3 hours of me
by tra3 6y ago
How do you avoid meetings with a distributed part time team? Any hints or best practices?
Working, part time, with a remote team and seem to have 3 hours of meetings. How do you do it?
- withinboredom 6y agoWe're remote and have a one hour meeting every three weeks; because we believe it's important to have a high bandwidth conversation to make sure we're all on the same page. Beyond that, we communicate mostly on GitHub issues, Slack (for realtime issues, goofing off, etc), and P2 for designing things that need more threading/nuance. We're so distributed (literally around the world) that our one hour meeting is guaranteed to inconvenience someone. When it's my turn, our meeting is at 11pm local time. I usually join with a beer. This meeting is usually a retrospective and just going through what issues we're planning to prioritize for the next few weeks.
- tra3 6y agoHow long has the team been assembled for and how do you bring new people on? Is your team mostly tech people? Are there any business folks involved?
- withinboredom 6y agoWe've been a proper team for almost two years now, we recently brought on a new developer last year. Onboarding is a whole thing as there are many, many systems involved in our project. We do hop on 1:1 video calls as needed to discuss things or get help debugging, which also can end up being a social call just as much as working together. We're a very technical team, so we don't have any business specialists on the teams.