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> Spontaneous interactions: Someone complaining over the lunch [...] In remote-only setting, everything requires setting up a meeting. That often formalizes eve
by cesarb 5y ago
> Spontaneous interactions: Someone complaining over the lunch [...] In remote-only setting, everything requires setting up a meeting. That often formalizes everything, and less things end up being discussed.
Our team scheduled a daily half-hour meeting early in the morning with no set agenda, to try to replace all these casual interactions until we can go back to hybrid. It's not perfect, but it helped.
- kozikow 5y agoWe have daily dev (remote) standups at noon. It's about 9 people on the meeting, so even if someone gives quick update about what they working on, discuss a few top priority issues that came up, it still ends up eating up the whole 30 minutes pretty quickly. And it supposed to be 15 minutes in the first place.
- eitland 5y agoNice! We had a voluntary meeting early in the morning but we ended up dropping it. What we do now is to encourage calling each other and also to encourage showing up for meetings early - if we want. For all its warts, this is a thing I like about MS Teams: it shows a notification whenever someone else first enters a scheduled meeting so if someone enters a meeting 5, 15 or even 20 minutes ahead of time I know they want to talk and can join if I want to talk. Talk before meetings can be anything both work and weather, but work has priority (I think). We also have a voluntary meeting sometime after lunch where we aren't allowed to talk about work : )
- MaxDPS 5y agoWow, that’s such a good observation about the MS Teams notification. That’s a great idea for people who just want to chat a bit.
- aweiland 5y agoWe do this too. Plus async on slack (sometimes with huddles). Works out well and I don't miss a thing about in person.