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As someone who has been fully remote the past two years, and in a team that is gradually exploring/adopting more async work practices over the past year, I woul
by jcpst 4y ago
As someone who has been fully remote the past two years, and in a team that is gradually exploring/adopting more async work practices over the past year, I would be curious to hear more too.
Our team stopped having a standup meeting- we just have a daily automated post in our chat, and we comment in the thread whenever it makes sense. If we’re working on the same thing for days with no blockers, it’s not a big deal to not provide an update.
We’ve reduced our synchronous communication by quite a bit. Some weeks I don’t have a single call I join. If you document everything well enough, you don’t really need to. I find myself on calls when I need to extract information from an architect that is just too busy to write everything down, or I’m mentoring a teammate. Or I’m in my monthly 1-on-1 with my manager.
Working outside of regular business hours is not off the table, but it is new. It helps that some of us are in the US and some in Poland. Normally, just blocking off time on the calendar and marking your status (out of office) is sufficient.