Re:Embracing Asynchronous Communication at Gitlab
by robotmay on Friday October 16, 2020 @05:16PM
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My personal experience at GitLab:
There's plenty of videos, but the really cool thing is that basically everything has a transcript, or meeting notes, or an agenda. And I think this hits a really nice middle ground that works for different types of people.
Personally I am very fast at reading/writing, and I focus better and understand better when reading, so I skip most of the videos and calls and just read them instead. But for some people they really enjoy the video side of things, and that's cool too. Most of our meetings/calls are optional and it works well to cater to both types of people. Our source of truth is ultimately what's written down (i.e. in an issue) and how we get to that point is flexible.
There's plenty of videos, but the really cool thing is that basically everything has a transcript, or meeting notes, or an agenda. And I think this hits a really nice middle ground that works for different types of people.
Personally I am very fast at reading/writing, and I focus better and understand better when reading, so I skip most of the videos and calls and just read them instead. But for some people they really enjoy the video side of things, and that's cool too. Most of our meetings/calls are optional and it works well to cater to both types of people. Our source of truth is ultimately what's written down (i.e. in an issue) and how we get to that point is flexible.
I really like it.