In general, people love Slack and oral communication, but it is just plain awful. Related to this idea:
Interesting refs
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Del Toyota Production System, el concepto de Nemawashi: Nemawashi - Wikipedia
Nemawashi (根回し) in Japanese means an informal process of quietly laying the foundation for some proposed change or project, by talking to the people concerned, gathering support and feedback, and so forth. It is considered an important element in any major change, before any formal steps are taken, and successful nemawashi enables changes to be carried out with the consent of all sides.
In Japan, high-ranking people expect to be let in on new proposals prior to an official meeting. If they find out about something for the first time during the meeting, they will feel that they have been ignored, and they may reject it for that reason alone. Thus, it’s important to approach these people individually before the meeting. This provides an opportunity to introduce the proposal to them…
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An amazing guide from Basecamp: Guide to Internal Communication, the Basecamp Way
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In Data Science, Knowledge Repos: Data’s big whiff - benn.substack. Also related to Data Management At Scale.
How much smarter is your organization because of the analysis you’ve already done? How many future decisions will be better because of the analysis you did in the past? Analysis should strive to not just answer one question, but to also give us a head start on the next question.
And yet, there’s no officially recognized system for storing these conclusions or finding what’s been done before. It rarely exists inside the civilized walls of the self-serve systems we invest so much time into building. Yes, it’s sometimes built on top of the foundational elements that underpin BI tools, like governed dbt models. But its final products—the materials that contain analyses and their associated recommendations—are often scattered around analysts’ computers, buried in emails and Slack posts, and built on top of ungoverned queries and Python notebooks that blend development work with final recommendations.
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Brainstorming And The Role Of Intuition Don´t start brainstorming as a group! https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1419839806083936259?s=20. Because of other effects, this is also suggested in Noise.
“Cualquier cosa que tenga una especie de foro (guiño al IT de los 90) donde la información se divida por temas y no permita escribir más de 1 vez por minuto, va que bufa. Es decir, no te dispares en el pie con un chat por proyecto. Di no al chat.”