Slack - team communication

[MagicDude4Eva]

We started to use Slack as an internal development comms tool (if you are familiar with HipChat, Slack is a ton better). While you are at it you might want to check out New Relic (app monitoring), PagerDuty (callout management) and pretty much everything from Atlassian (Jira, Confluence, Stash, Fisheye)

Nice thing about Slack is the push notification integration onto desktop and mobile platform (only iOS and Android though) from a large number of 3rd party applications (best of all - it's free).

 

[zippy]

We use what must be the worse comms tool ever. Lotus f*****ing Notes with f*****ing Sametime. Damn cheap Brits...

 

[MagicDude4Eva]

We use what must be the worse comms tool ever. Lotus f*****ing Notes with f*****ing Sametime. Damn cheap Brits...

Oh god - it can not get any worse - I remember using Sametime/Lotus Notes more than 8 years ago - was dreadful then. So glad I am done with big corporates where communication tools are picked by people not involved.

 

[hj2k_x]

Oh god - it can not get any worse - I remember using Sametime/Lotus Notes more than 8 years ago - was dreadful then. So glad I am done with big corporates where communication tools are picked by people not involved.

Are you still using Slack? How is it going? Keen to try it out...

 

[Brentontw]

Currently using Slack, had to use it for a final year university software engineering project. I really like it, the fact that I don't have to add multiple whatsapp groups to my phone going off at all hours is great as all the subteams are just broken into separate channels and I can mute those that I'm not directly involved with. Works really well with build automation tools such as Jenkins as well.

 

[MagicDude4Eva]

Are you still using Slack? How is it going? Keen to try it out...

Not any more as all tech guys literally sit within an area of 20m. Slack was great when we required communication to flow across a number of teams across different geographical locations. The integration is great and nothing wrong with the product. It would now be more cumbersome to type out a message if we can just say it out loud. Most of our comms is verbal, but I think Slack is great for big dev-teams and for devops (especially using their API's for automation).

 

[Hackson]

Not any more as all tech guys literally sit within an area of 20m

Can still be useful for documentation/archival purposes.

How helpful is slack with things like stand-ups? Can I host one there or do we still have to go to a whiteboard?

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

I use Slack daily for work, works great when you have a lot of people scattered around the globe.

 

[CPTBoy]

I use Slack daily for work, works great when you have a lot of people scattered around the globe.

Exactly the same here. With teams all over the world, Slack works fantastic for us.

 

[_kabal_]

with everyone sitting in the same office and next to each other, slack is still great.

if you use it like skype or email, it is just another noise producer.


we have organisation "rules" setup.
people cannot just willy nilly setup channels.
direct messages should mostly be avoided.
treat slackbot as a member of the team, and use it for social engineering purposes. e.g people used to leave the office without pushing their daily work. slackbot now asks you if you have pushed your work at the end of the day. because he is treated as a team member, you must answer him. result, 99% push rate at end of day, and those that dont are called out.

The API integrations are awesome too. Dedicated channel where all bitbucket webhooks push to. You can obviosuly do this without slack, but it makes its zero effort for me now, and I basically now have visibility over every commit, immediately. Instant code reviews. Catch things on day 0

 

[hj2k_x]

I am liking it so far. Slackbot is pretty versatile.

 

[Arthur]

mobile platform (only iOS and Android though)

We use Slack. There's a Windows Phone client that runs on WP7/8 and Windows 10 Mobile. Get it here in the Store.

 

[Majick]

We also Slack and it is really great. It is also easy to integrate with other systems (CI server, production monitoring etc.) so you can receive notifications in slack

 

[Thor]

We use what must be the worse comms tool ever. Lotus f*****ing Notes with f*****ing Sametime. Damn cheap Brits...

O, my jirre!

Dit is nou 'n pot k@k.

Used to use this before forking on a project

 

[Thor]

 

[vinodh]

I opened the site and the text is perfect. No pixellation whatsoever.

On a separate note, Slack integration into Ghost is making good progress:

 

[Thor]

I'm on a 27" inch screen, might be that

 

[vinodh]

I'm on a 27" inch screen, might be that

I'm on a 12" 2304x1440 display.