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> In my experience, doing collaborative creative work is dramatically more difficult in a remote environment Work on improving your ability to do collaborative
by dmitrygr 4y ago
> In my experience, doing collaborative creative work is dramatically more difficult in a remote environment
Work on improving your ability to do collaborative work remotely? It is the future
- 542458 4y agoI’m doing my best! I’m in a very hybrid environment right now. But even people with a lot of experience find it hard. The O’Reiley book “Discussing Design” (strong recommend, it’s a good book) is about design critique, and it spends some time on how doing critique in hybrid/remote environments is hard. Sometimes things are just… more difficult, and it’s not trivially solvable.
- sys_64738 4y agoDesign work needs a whiteboard but no electronic tools come close.
- asdff 4y agoA laptop camera angled on the whiteboard or whatever scrap of paper the person has on hand? Thats what we've used and its fine for showing drawings in zoom meetings. Making people commute to watch someone draw on a whiteboard seems wasteful.
- spookthesunset 4y agoI have tried whiteboard over zoom. It’s a miserable failure. There isn’t a camera, lighting setup and compression algorithm on earth that will get it right. It just looks like a grainy, pixilated poorly lit mess. And you can’t hand the market to the other people. And worse you have to schedule it in advance in 30 minute intervals. Bye bye spontaneous creativity. Bye bye innovation. Programming remote is easy. But there is vastly more to delivering a product than writing code.
- LgWoodenBadger 4y agoHave you tried the virtual whiteboard in conjunction with an iPad and Apple Pencil? Or whatever the Surface equivalent is? 10000 better than a real white board
- sys_64738 4y agoNothing beats a real whiteboard for interactive discussion and synergy, IMO.
- xboxnolifes 4y agoProgress doesn't come from telling people to "get good". If remote collaboration can be comparable to in-person, we need to prove it.
- dmitrygr 4y agoWe have proved it. See last few years.
- flkiwi 4y agoOr decades, for anyone who has worked for a company with more than one major office. The argument that you can be successful only by sharing physical space is disproven every day, and has been for a very, very long time.
- spookthesunset 4y agoNaw. Two years isn’t enough time for large organizations to fully devolve into tiny silos of people that never collaborate outside their immediate team. With remote it’s as if the rest of the company doesn’t exist. You’ll never even meet anybody else using just zoom. I’m sorry but full remote is a huge bust. I get people love their lack of commute and think they are all being ultra productive but honestly they aren’t. There is way more to being a successful organization than simply optimizing for each employees productivity. Everything exists on a pendulum and it is gonna swing back in favor of real in person work. The last two years were supposed to be temporary. Always remember that.
- prmoustache 4y ago> Naw. Two years isn’t enough time for large organizations to fully devolve into tiny silos of people that never collaborate outside their immediate team. > [...] > Everything exists on a pendulum and it is gonna swing back in favor of real in person work. How do you think companies that have team spread across different continents have been working for decades? Why do you think apps such as slack and msteams were already heavily used and popular in the workplace before covid hit?
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- andrekandre 4y ago> Work on improving your ability to do collaborative work remotely? It is the future sounds like a business opportunity to me!