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I have had multiple occasions where our India team was stuck for weeks on something despite sending daily messages back and forth. Then I called them late a nig
by spaetzleesser 4y ago
I have had multiple occasions where our India team was stuck for weeks on something despite sending daily messages back and forth. Then I called them late a night my time and could resolve the issue in a few minutes. It's funny that the same management that thinks collaboration needs everybody to sit in the same open office has no problem having workers in a timezone 12 hours off where you can never talk directly.
- webmaven 4y agoI think that example may be more a matter of being separated by a common language (and/or poor written communication skills) than a time zone difference.
- spaetzleesser 4y agoNot at all. You can’t document everything precisely when you do new and complex stuff. Sometimes it’s way more efficient to talk to people directly.
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- webmaven 4y agoIt's interesting that you jumped from "communicating well in writing" (and, as I implied, idiomatically, or at least using shared idioms), to "documenting precisely". When you say "talk to people directly", do you just mean by voice (so you have the extra channels of verbal stress, pauses, and intonation), or do you mean by video or in person (where you get to add gestures too)?