Re:Embracing Asynchronous Communication at Gitlab
by pc86 on Friday October 16, 2020 @01:56PM
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This matches up so precisely with my experience it's scary (and a little sad).
Everyone is so quick to "have a quick call" that inevitably sucks 20 minutes out of everyone's day because (and I've heard this verbatim a dozen times in the past 6 months alone) "it's too much to type out" or "it's easier than sending an email," but then wonder why nothing gets done when all the dev tasks are eighteen 20-minute segments of work instead of two 3-hour segments.
To your last graph, I think there are absolutely times where this makes sense, but "business owner has a new feature request for a large existing product" is not one of them.
Everyone is so quick to "have a quick call" that inevitably sucks 20 minutes out of everyone's day because (and I've heard this verbatim a dozen times in the past 6 months alone) "it's too much to type out" or "it's easier than sending an email," but then wonder why nothing gets done when all the dev tasks are eighteen 20-minute segments of work instead of two 3-hour segments.
To your last graph, I think there are absolutely times where this makes sense, but "business owner has a new feature request for a large existing product" is not one of them.