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> more work completed, but less coordination between teams may not be a net positive Here's one anecdata: I have never in any job coordinated as much with my t
by Swizec 3y ago
> more work completed, but less coordination between teams may not be a net positive
Here's one anecdata: I have never in any job coordinated as much with my team mates and other teams as I have in the past ~3 years of working remotely.
The trick wasn't that we're remote or on-site, what increased our level of coordination was how we work. As a team instead of as a random grouping of individuals.
- listenallyall 3y agoSo, you all set up a bunch more meetings?
- avocabros 3y agoIt's worth considering whether that's a positive, or if the extra coordination is required simply because there are fewer and slower information channels available to communicate vs. on-site.
- Swizec 3y agoThe positive is that we get more done faster with better quality. Hard to compare with on-site comms volume because the on-site stuff goes into a mental black hole and nobody thinks of it as a measurable event. A 10min chat with a colleague remotely feels like a thing. A 20min chat in the office feels like “yeah of course I was coding this whole time”. I think this effect is also why people like async meetings via documents. They don’t realize it’s still a meeting and is taking waaaay more of their time than just sitting down synchronously for 10min to hash things out. They’d rather do it in 10x 2min bursts between other things.