I've now successfully gotten two teams to put statuses in a daily Slack thread, so other managers can keep up on the progress of different work. One place basically used that thread to go around the room and basically announce questions or discussion topics. The other just completely eschewed status reporting in group, and just uses a separate doc to launch into complex discussion topics. And our "standup" is now a parking lot that's basically "sync up on complex topics".
Once you start speeding past the "what did you do yesterday" topic, you realize how poorly organized communication is on serious topics. A lot of places spin up Google docs or the like to basically make agendas and take meeting notes. So now, unless you have the magic link handy you have no idea where it is. And 9/10 times it turns into a giant mind map of fragmented sentences.
What I'm basically seeing, is that agile, and scrum, grew up in a world of synchronous meetings. To really embrace asynchronous communication needs new ways of organization. And there just aren't strong patterns for this yet.
Once you start speeding past the "what did you do yesterday" topic, you realize how poorly organized communication is on serious topics. A lot of places spin up Google docs or the like to basically make agendas and take meeting notes. So now, unless you have the magic link handy you have no idea where it is. And 9/10 times it turns into a giant mind map of fragmented sentences.
What I'm basically seeing, is that agile, and scrum, grew up in a world of synchronous meetings. To really embrace asynchronous communication needs new ways of organization. And there just aren't strong patterns for this yet.