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by crdoconnor 3484 days ago
>It becomes infeasible for every person working on a product to have to know exactly who to talk to for every question.

It is, however, perfectly feasible to ask such questions on a team chatroom. "Who knows about [x]?" is usually enough to get the right person to talk to and it means the lead doesn't keep getting interrupted.
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calchris42 3484 days ago
A team chatroom... what a nice idea. This was a larger, more enterprise company. Enough said?

But seriously, I think the answer depends heavily on company and team size. The role I mention is a lot less critical for smaller teams or when there are minimal different stakeholders involved.

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crdoconnor 3482 days ago
>A team chatroom... what a nice idea. This was a larger, more enterprise company. Enough said?

Are you literally saying that larger companies need managers for their dev teams because they're too enterprise to use slack?

FWIW I've used both in larger companies and smaller companies.

>But seriously, I think the answer depends heavily on company and team size.

I don't think it does. Slack chatrooms and email lists scale.

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