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I have never seen anything more efficient at making group decisions than a pull request.

If your team is getting on a call to present things or to talk things through, you’re very likely on a train to nowhere.

In a remote setting, every ounce of effort spent toward emulating “meat space” distracts from the artifact, the work product, and the result.

I am on a team now who records meetings so they can re-watch them. Let that productivity drain set in.



Not all work is coding, or can be reduced to text editing and discussions about diffs.


That's not the point. The point is that meetings themselves are not work, and that in most cases they make the work more difficult.

If no meeting happened, but all the artifacts required to guide work exist and are accessible and understood, you come out ahead.

A pull request doesn't replace a meeting, but it can obviate the need for a meeting. Information sharing, done. Feedback and suggestions, captured. Goal and metrics, visible.

In my experience (working on both coding and non-coding initiatives) the most effective meetings are the ones teams ask for in addition to a thorough, async, text-driven collaborative process.




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