[teampractices] Interesting article on over-communication

[Mukunda Modell]

The ideas they are advocating strike me as the antithesis of how things are
done at wikimedia.

I often feel a significant friction and opposition to changing anything, to
the point where it feels difficult to get anything done because we must
spend as much time explaining and defending an idea as it would take to
simply implement it.

I definitely agree with their suggestion that it's often better to just try
something and kill off the failures, and it's something we don't do enough
of, in my opinion.


On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Max Binder <mbinder at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> I think this is an interesting article in the context of folks who feel
> thinking about process is a waste of time. Thinking about process is good,
> and "just getting shit done" is also good. The nuance involved in striking
> a balance is important to not lose sight of one or the other. I like that
> this article approaches that nuance directly.
>
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Grace Gellerman <ggellerman at wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
>> I thought that there were plenty of good ideas in this article from the
>> Asana founders, so sharing here in the event that you might think so, too:
>>
>>
>> https://blog.asana.com/2015/07/workstyle-communication-internal-memo-from-our-founders/
>>
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