Removing barriers to increase developer productivity

[2018-11-27 Tue 19:30:43] speaker: Hadi Hariri event: JetBrains night 2018

Meetings

• coordination
  • purpose
  • action items
• status update
  • no standups
  • use tracking tools to write updates

Communication challenges

• issue tracker over email
• false sense of urgency when using slack
• internal wiki, information blackhole?
• once a month internal newsletter
• weekly sharing session

Management or no management

• no permission required
• top level goals
• does it add value?
  • right now
  • in the long term
  • for the team/product/company
• give feedback, positive and negative

Questions:

• evaluation?
• remote and onsite