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Re:To find great remote employees, prioritize candidates wit... by rrrrrrrrrrrryan on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @01:13AM (#25133714)
Put your ask at the top, don't be afraid to use bullet points, keep things short and sweet. Most things can be effectively communicated in 2 or 3 paragraphs - if you need to communicate more than this, send it in a follow-up email after they respond. If you need to communicate more than this, you should really set up a quick call to communicate the thing and ensure they understand, then send the long email afterward.
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Re:To find great remote employees, prioritize candidates wit... by 3pt14159 on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @01:27AM (#25133776)
Using checkboxes in GitHub issues is my secret weapon. There is no way to mark an issue as done or glaze over the details that way. Checklists in general are a great thing. I wish there was a startup that made community sourced checklists for common tasks like opening up a PR or writing an email asking for a raise.
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Re:To find great remote employees, prioritize candidates wit... by will_pseudonym on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @02:29AM (#25134075)
Checklists also save lives!

> But a year after surgical teams at eight hospitals adopted a 19-item checklist, the average patient death rate fell more than 40 percent and the rate of complications fell by about a third, the researchers reported.

https://web.archive.org/web/20151103232100/http://www.nytime...

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Re:To find great remote employees, prioritize candidates wit... by tekknik on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @07:44PM (#25144823)
on the flip side of this, there’s those of us who hate the superfluous (opinion) processes that seem only to slow down, not speed up.

PRs don’t need checklists IMO. If they do maybe your team is too large.

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Re:To find great remote employees, prioritize candidates wit... by 3pt14159 on Thursday November 19, 2020 @01:58AM (#25146932)
I think a little checklist would help me remember things that are easy to forget, like updating documentation or making sure that a test exists to reproduce the issue. That said, at the end of the day tools exist to help us, not slow us down. If they is a small PR that fixes a typo then I want to be trusted to skip the checklist completely.
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