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Prohibition of oral communication on the task

A powerful way to encourage knowledge fixation is to ban oral communication.

Communication is only through a limited number of channels, known in advance: ticket / merge requests / CRM / strictly regulated channels in messengers.

The way is a lot of questions.

  • What about the speed of communication?

  • What about socialization?

  • How stable is the system at all?

  • How do you make sure people know where to write?

  • How can this be combined with a culture of knowledge sharing?

But there are publications about a company that lives in this way.

Nikita Sobolev It promotes the idea that communication should only be allowed through a Task Tracker/Code/Documentation, and ideally, the identity of the people you communicate with should be hidden at all, so that communication is as objective as possible.

However, a strong criticism of this approach is the lack of humanity and high overhead.

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