What are your team expectations for communication with each other? Where do you communicate? What are the expectations on response times.
Some Potential Guiding Principles
Open: We encourage all forms of feedback and information. We as a team want to place the minimum burden on those who want to reach out to us.
Office Hours: No response is ever expected outside of an individual’s own working hours.
Public / Private Ok: We see the advantages of public Slack chat and also recognize the importance of less visible channels if folks feel more comfortable chatting directly.
Channels And Cadences
Company Internal
Slack: We request all forms of communication be sent to our Slack channels. Feel free to use either or both:
list of Slack channels
Timeliness: If a response is needed in a particular time-frame we request that this be added to the message.
Random: For interesting stuff to share where no response is needed feel free to use X channel
Email: We prefer Slack over email for questions
Style: We have no message style guide at this time.
Public
- GitHub
- Public forums
Motivations
Clearly define lines of communication
Clearly establish expectations on responsiveness
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