[taeric]

I don't fully disagree, but I do disagree that I want all decisions done in a long format. Especially when I'm specifically trying to get my team to be way more agile and willing to make decisions while they are working.

Throwing up a quick discussion point on a slack room while you are acting on the idea is perfectly fine. Just as it could be perfectly fine to toss the code if the idea doesn't pan out.

[fendy3002]

My current supervisor do it right, a big decision is stared in slack. It usually attracts 3-6 people in that discussion. A huddle or teams meeting is arranged if needed.

Then another slack discussion is posted with a v1 proposal in it, and link to previous discussion. This time, more people can give dissenting opinion. If nothing conflicting, a short sharing session will be held presenting this, and see whether there's dissenting opinion again.

[bluehatbrit]

That's fair enough! I don't think it's about completely eliminating all decisions from happening in slack. It's just the one's OP was talking about where they would benefit from the whole team having the opportunity to consider the topic and give their input. Smaller decisions which only require the input of a few members of the team and shallow conversation I think are fine to be had in slack, that's where slack works really well.

I think a bit of it boils down to each team being different as well, if you need a team to be more agile then using slack more might be the right thing. In OP's case they sound like they need their team to slow down and consider some things more deeply and slowly. In that case pushing those topics out of slack may make sense.