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Re:How Slack Harms Projects by human20190310 on Sunday August 18, 2019 @11:12AM (#20730619)
> I feel like if people writing these types of articles bought an electric drill, they’d end up drilling holes in all their walls

A more apt analogy would be finding holes and injuries all over the office after handing out electric drills to every single person. It would happen.

Slack is a tool that requires user discipline, yet it is generally deployed company-wide. Its major flaw is that it brings together people who need urgency (sales/support) and those who must avoid it (development).

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Re:How Slack Harms Projects by kintalo on Sunday August 18, 2019 @05:35PM (#20733070)
development must avoid urgency?
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Re:How Slack Harms Projects by northwest65 on Sunday August 18, 2019 @07:09PM (#20733544)
They need to avoid product being a fist up their arse turning their head in different directions like a puppet, if that is counter to getting meaningful work done. In some organisations that probably means having an insulator between product and dev.
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