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Slack Analytics are a powerful tool for understanding the way your company communicates. How and where your team chats is a pillar of your overall team communication structure. Conway’s Law states the following:
In any company (small companies especially), it’s easy for leaders to get busy. Rushing between planning meetings, standups, retros, and one-on-ones, then trying to squeeze in some dev work as well.
A little excitement in your job is usually a good thing. It could be learning a new development language, preparing to release a new feature, or taking on new responsibilities as part of a promotion. That’s great for most jobs, but not operations.
When I started my development career, I thought I was hired to write feature code. What else is there to building a product? I only now realize how wrong I was.