Sure, instead he'd just change his mind three times distributed across hundreds of Slack messages, and you'd still have no tracked resolution.
When you have a decision born of a conversation, the only useful thing to do is to write that distilled, focused result on some median other than the discussion itself.
This problem ultimately has little to do with remote vs colocated; The same applies whether the discussion happened in verbal discussion, a meeting, an email chain, messaging, etc.
When you have a decision born of a conversation, the only useful thing to do is to write that distilled, focused result on some median other than the discussion itself.
This problem ultimately has little to do with remote vs colocated; The same applies whether the discussion happened in verbal discussion, a meeting, an email chain, messaging, etc.