Recently joined a new company that is remote first with a fair amount of juniors in it. It's rather difficult since they often lack guidance and start rabbit-holing in the wrong direction before eventually failing or producing a very non-ideal solution.
For us a pure asynchronous comms workflow simply doesn't work well yet, this may change w/ more seniority.
I found that having weekly (or even bi-weekly) 1:1's with my colleagues and pair/cowork dramatically lowers communication barriers and boosts productivity through the roof (albeit at the expense of 2 people working on the same project).
Major issues can surface when colleagues don't communicate at all other than just pull requests / issues / standups / design docs (whatever you call them).
It can cause people to perceive others are 'faceless entities'.
This can range from building completely misaligned solutions to even sparking interpersonal conflict.
Recently joined a new company that is remote first with a fair amount of juniors in it. It's rather difficult since they often lack guidance and start rabbit-holing in the wrong direction before eventually failing or producing a very non-ideal solution.
For us a pure asynchronous comms workflow simply doesn't work well yet, this may change w/ more seniority.
I found that having weekly (or even bi-weekly) 1:1's with my colleagues and pair/cowork dramatically lowers communication barriers and boosts productivity through the roof (albeit at the expense of 2 people working on the same project).
Major issues can surface when colleagues don't communicate at all other than just pull requests / issues / standups / design docs (whatever you call them). It can cause people to perceive others are 'faceless entities'. This can range from building completely misaligned solutions to even sparking interpersonal conflict.