Posts tagged communication.
I've written before about the importance of keeping work discussions in public forums: Slack channels, JIRA tickets, shared docs, anywhere that's searchable and accessible. If it's about work, other people probably need to know about it.
Time management lives alongside prioritization and communication as the foundational skills for being an effective team leader. Team leads (alongside everyone else in most organizations) have more work than they can handle, so what work should they do and when?
Slack Analytics are a powerful tool for understanding the way your company communicates. How and where your team chats is a pillar of your overall team communication structure. Conway’s Law states the following:
In any company (small companies especially), it’s easy for leaders to get busy. Rushing between planning meetings, standups, retros, and one-on-ones, then trying to squeeze in some dev work as well.
I like to joke that every problem, at its core, is a communication problem.