How to organize teamwork with Skype
Work And Study Relations / / December 19, 2019
This material was sent to us by LinguaLeo, whose staff - Anton Kirillov, Senior Backend Developer - shares his method of working with large distributed teams in to Skype.
If you are a fast coordination of multiple distributed teams through Skype or your company Skype - it's a working tool, if you have more than a hundred active contacts, you can help 11 life hacking for effective work with Skype, I use daily:
1. Let the real names of the contacts in the same style. This will help in the search, and if you initiate the acquaintance of several people.
2. Add a contact name tags for quick recall rights. For example #js #php #qa #admin #marketing #lingualeo #microsoft #rambler # team-highload #ninja
3. Rename and tagged chats. As practice shows, not many use the command / topic for naming common chat and even fewer people reflect its goal of communication. Make it a rule to exclude from the list of anonymous discussion chats and always denote goal in the title. For example, instead of "Server" write "increase server capacity before 1 January."
4. Add to the name of the less important chats label. For example it can be 10 characters long dash after the name of the chat. Logically it seems that it is on the contrary will allocate these chats, but it turns out that after a while the attention is inverted and ignores them. But do not forget about them altogether.
5. Show off what you see, if possible. 1 better to see once than a hundred times to say or write. First, use a demonstration of your screen. Second, set the program for the rapid creation of screenshots (such LightShot) and link to an example.
6. Write out the chat key agreement in the course of an oral discussion.
7. Use the vertical margins. To separate one from the other threads, or the focus on your message (if it really matters) to make the text of the skip blank lines (Shift + Enter).
8. Use emoticons to mark important messages. In order not to waste other people's time to read and search for important messages in a long chat, you can use emoticons to add accents. For example, if chatting solved the problem, and now she resolved, then before the message, add a smiley stars - it will save the rest of the participants from the subtraction of a long text and will soon realize that all ended successfully.
9. Know and use text commands. It is important to know, at a minimum / topic / alertsoff / alertson. alertson command allows you to specify the keywords for which Skype will respond to the notification. Make several lists of keywords and use them for different chat rooms.
10. Remember that it is easy and is available now, it is very difficult to find then. Therefore, all the important information (links, passwords, secret, schedule arrangement) is best to move to a special place for this purpose (browser bookmarks, password manager, calendar, tracker).
11. Keep history when Skype transfer to another computer. Be careful, if you just put Skype on a new computer and run, history is not saved. For its preservation is required to carry the c database.