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Teams is worse than zoom certainly, but it's better than Cisco WebEx. Slack used to be good - especially for just a background chat, but then they hid the "sta

Teams is worse than zoom certainly, but it's better than Cisco WebEx. Slack used to be good - especially for just a background chat, but then they hid the "start a call" option away and pushed "huddles", which are far worse. There's a solid rule of thumb that most software that is good becomes worse. Product managers have to push new features in to justify their job, if the software was 75% good before, there's a 3:1 chance that the change will make it objectively worse, and even higher chance that it will break your workflow and cause you to take cognitive load away from important things to learn how to deal with it in a new way.

ethbr0 4y ago
At some point, companies need a CUCO: chief user consistency officer. "No, we're not changing that. Your changes don't meaningfully improve the product enough to offset the disruption."
- happymellon 4y ago
  That's supposed to be the product owner. Unfortunately I've noticed that "product owners" have become significantly less engaged with steering the product direction. I guess people either don't find it interesting, or they keep getting threatened by higher up and don't feel like they have enough power or own the product.