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I've fought this battle, and it turns out that non-technical staff often have no other recourse. There is, in many orgs, no analog for the things that technica
by subpixel 3y ago
I've fought this battle, and it turns out that non-technical staff often have no other recourse.
There is, in many orgs, no analog for the things that technical staff regularly use that make a meeting unnecessary.
PR? GitHub discussion? ADRs? RFCs? Never heard of them.
- unmole 3y agoEmail threads?
- lostlogin 3y agoIf cc’ing me, please no. Threads with loads of people includes are one of the more gross big-org features. At least I can not turn up to someone’s stupid meeting.
- unmole 3y agoMost clients allow you to mute threads. You could also send emails from the most egregious offenders straight to trash.
- subpixel 3y agoThese are perceived to be worse than meetings, again mainly by non-technical teams who have never seen email (tied to a web-based mailing list, specifically) used to drive decisions.
- addisonl 3y agoI think this is entirely based on your company and it’s silly to make that broad generalization since we’ve all heard the common mantra: “this could have been an email”.
- suction 3y ago[dead]