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Discussion on: What is the future of remote work in software development?

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🚩 Atul Prajapati 🇮🇳

I agree with your thought "Leonid"

But still we don't have proper systems and software's to manage work from remote.

One big problem i have faced during last lockdown that there is lot's miss communications while we are working remotely with few team members.

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Ben Sinclair

What things do you think we can't manage properly remotely?

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🚩 Atul Prajapati 🇮🇳

Ummmmm, Junior developers

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JoelBonetR 🥇

That's curious because when you write things down it's all clear but when you speak with someone they forgot details and thus those communication issues shine most.

Maybe you need to recap the meetings to ensure all involved people is aligned and send this sort of "TL;DR" through the chat for people to double-check :)

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Rebecca DuPont

I think this is the right direction and I agree with you, Joel. It might be overkill, but often in meetings I end up taking minutes and notes and at the end will recap with the action items. If it's my meeting I called I will send out an email to the team with the summary of the talking points and action items.

However if it's another person's meeting, while I will take notes for myself, I will still email the group and clarify what we are doing and what my action items are.

Did I do this before having to be working remotely? Nope. However, this is half communication but also half covering my behind.

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JoelBonetR 🥇

Its a technique widely used as well in face-to-face meetings since... always.
It's not just about "communication issues", sometimes people tend to do what they want instead what they are suposed to do.

Creating and sharing meeting summaries is a key point, not only to make things clear but also to ensure you all are in the right, or at least the same direction. 😄

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🚩 Atul Prajapati 🇮🇳

Wow Joel your thoughts are very clear

I'm impressed with your clever remote working experience

I will surely apply these ideas at our team meetings

thanks dear, thank you very much!

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JoelBonetR 🥇

You always need to protect yourself and those things make organising a job/project/team more... let's say straightforward. If you need to check that everyone is doing it's thing each few hours something is wrong 😆
So let the things written down into a group usually helps on that.

Share your experiences when you use that! :)