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by capableweb 1953 days ago
Well, make sure that's actually wanted before jumping into assumptions.

I had the misfortune of assuming people want to communicate more in order to avoid miscommunication but it turned out that the team (~5 developers in a ~15 person company) actually wanted more walls around them, minimize communication and focus on silo'd development (one frontend, one backend, one ios, one android and one infrastructure with 0 sharing of tasks even if one was behind/in front) with as little communication between devs and others in the company as possible. Only the person dedicated for communication should do the communication.

I didn't agree with this so I no longer work there, but there was a few months of pain because I assumed everyone wanted to communicate but didn't have the experience/tools/processes to do so. I was wrong, which took time to discover as I assumed everyone wanted agile collaboration.