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Ask HN: How do you communicate in a remote startup?

238 points aml183 | 2 comments | 15 Nov 24 19:17 UTC | HN request time: 0.551s | source

We are a remote company. Everything is going well. No plans to be in person, but I’d say we can do a better job at communicating. Any tips or articles to read?
1. oc_elder ◴[15 Nov 24 22:18 UTC] No.42151868[source]▶
Regular group discussions (not standup) are important. My team meets 30-60 minutes four days a week to discuss technical details and long term strategy.

It plays two important roles

1. establish rapport between team members

2. gives known space for issues. Leads to Better balance of focus time and group convo

This is the most important meeting of the day. Create doc to people can add things to the agenda. Managers job is to keep the meeting relevant, efficient.

Outside of that. Devs encouraged to pair together separately for troubleshooting.

1:1s are critical early on. DO NOT CANCEL THEM. And keep them relevant

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2. Aachen ◴[20 Nov 24 00:39 UTC] No.42189660[source]▶
> My team meets 30-60 minutes four days a week to discuss technical details and long term strategy.

Long term strategy needs to be decided on four times a week? Each instance taking ~10% of the working day's time? I expect I'm misunderstanding you but I'm not sure in what way