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Ask HN: What would increase your team's productivity?

8 points by accession 7y ago

Technical or otherwise, what do you have in mind?

verdverm 7y ago
https://docs.hofstadter.io https://docs.hofstadter.io
- accession 7y ago
  That's a fun concept, watched the demo. Have you built anything relatively complex with it?
  - verdverm 7y ago
    The studios application itself
dr01d 7y ago
Dropping jira.
- accession 7y ago
  What would you replace JIRA with and why?
rseanlindsay 7y ago
Last week I ran an offsite for the executive team at a public tech company focused on "performance" of a leadership team...I borrowed a lot from Lencioni's "Five Dysfunctions" but that wasn't enough... If you have a team and want to improve, my first question would be "in what dimension?" -- and then I would have several follow ons about why and how... Happy to discuss more if I can be helpful - just message or find me: http://drift.me/seanlindsay http://drift.me/seanlindsay
bwb 7y ago
I asked this same question about 12 months ago and we are working on reducing meetings, making them more effective, and increasing the amount of time to get in a flow state for deep work. Just wanted to share as that is where I ended up and currently playing with work analytics from the calendars on a personal and business level with a few public companies (https://execution.com/free-meeting-stats/ https://execution.com/free-meeting-stats/). Productivity is a hard one, as there are hard increases and soft ones that make people feel better which then translate into better results.
patatino 7y ago
- no meetings/standups in the morning - no email/slack/phones in the morning Try to create an environment where people can work 3-4h without stupid interruptions and do some deep work. That is how I would run my dev company if I had one ;)
- accession 7y ago
  This is a great point. My most productive hours in the early morning last about as long as I can resist looking at slack.
- dondada 7y ago
  > no meetings/standups in the morning Would you have standups in the afternoon or are you completely against them?
  - patatino 7y ago
    Personally, I don't like daily standups. Having worked in two companies which implemented them, I could not see any benefits. Maybe there is value if implemented better. I don't have enough experience to make a final decision about that.

8 points by accession 7y ago

Technical or otherwise, what do you have in mind?

verdverm 7y ago

https://docs.hofstadter.io https://docs.hofstadter.io

accession 7y ago
That's a fun concept, watched the demo. Have you built anything relatively complex with it?
- verdverm 7y ago
  The studios application itself

dr01d 7y ago

Dropping jira.

accession 7y ago
What would you replace JIRA with and why?

rseanlindsay 7y ago

Last week I ran an offsite for the executive team at a public tech company focused on "performance" of a leadership team...I borrowed a lot from Lencioni's "Five Dysfunctions" but that wasn't enough... If you have a team and want to improve, my first question would be "in what dimension?" -- and then I would have several follow ons about why and how... Happy to discuss more if I can be helpful - just message or find me: http://drift.me/seanlindsay http://drift.me/seanlindsay

bwb 7y ago

I asked this same question about 12 months ago and we are working on reducing meetings, making them more effective, and increasing the amount of time to get in a flow state for deep work. Just wanted to share as that is where I ended up and currently playing with work analytics from the calendars on a personal and business level with a few public companies (https://execution.com/free-meeting-stats/ https://execution.com/free-meeting-stats/). Productivity is a hard one, as there are hard increases and soft ones that make people feel better which then translate into better results.

patatino 7y ago

- no meetings/standups in the morning - no email/slack/phones in the morning Try to create an environment where people can work 3-4h without stupid interruptions and do some deep work. That is how I would run my dev company if I had one ;)

accession 7y ago
This is a great point. My most productive hours in the early morning last about as long as I can resist looking at slack.
dondada 7y ago
> no meetings/standups in the morning Would you have standups in the afternoon or are you completely against them?
- patatino 7y ago
  Personally, I don't like daily standups. Having worked in two companies which implemented them, I could not see any benefits. Maybe there is value if implemented better. I don't have enough experience to make a final decision about that.