March 8, 2016 at 10:35 pm
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The Slack Integration
March 9, 2016 at 1:13 am
A 3rd party introduced Flowdoc to us which follows a similar principal
We found that it speeded up communication dramatically and cut down on email.
We didn't have a timezone challenge so it was as near to face to face without actually colocation.
As with all tools you get the most out of it when you take time to learn how to use it
The 3rd party had integrated Confluence, Gitlab, Jenkins, Jira etc so you could see precisely what was going on at any one time
March 9, 2016 at 1:27 am
Personally I found multiple communication tools distracting. I like organisation, so if I could do everything with one tool, it would be nice. If I could just reply to SQL Server Central's daily message, it would be easier. Sometimes the internet is slow, so email helps keeping productivity going. I don't have to watch email being delivered. 🙂 And if that one communication tool can communicate to all the applications I need to work with, life would be bliss.
5ilverFox
Consulting DBA / Developer
South Africa
March 9, 2016 at 5:08 am
I would not use it.
We have IM groups for little bitty stuff that's a bit short for email ('I'm generating folks' or something) but generally I'm just not into any moar than I have.
March 9, 2016 at 6:00 am
A user group I'm in uses it to communicate (and I need to be a little more present on it), and we use it at work. But we're all but ready to go to Office 365, and Skype for Business just makes it redundant.
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March 9, 2016 at 6:33 am
Our IT and BI departments use it. So our group would use it.
March 9, 2016 at 6:39 am
We use Slack. I know members of our IT team would be more apt to subscribe to a SLACK channel than give out an email address for another blog. Too many bloggers already fill our boxes with spam.
March 9, 2016 at 6:57 am
It sounds similar to Microsoft Lync / Skype. It's useful for those situations where you need a quick ad-hoc group conversation between team members. A lot of useful information can be exchanged, and having the conversation thread integrated and archived into Outlook is useful.
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March 9, 2016 at 7:09 am
I looked through the website and don't understand what use this is. There have been more than adequate synchronous (real-time) and asynchronous (delayed) communication mechanisms (both one to one and many to many) for voice and for text and for image for a long time now, and reasonable multi-way vidoeo conferencing and async video too, and options to what is recorded and retained and what is discarded after being communicated so what is this offering that is new?
Sure, use of another communication mechanism can reduce use of email; but that doesn't save anyone's time unless it also reduces the amount of communication. Maybe some people are using email when they should be using interactive real time communication, in which case there's a management failure to get people to communicate by the most appropriate means and sticking in yet another system for communication won't help one bit, what's needed is for management to wake up and do their jobs.
Tom
March 9, 2016 at 7:33 am
March 9, 2016 at 7:54 am
I would use a SQLServerCentral slack integration.
March 9, 2016 at 8:31 am
I'd really like to see your resources used for something else. In my case, a wiki.
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March 9, 2016 at 9:02 am
Personally I am not interested in Slacker. Due to having to use my mobile to keep track of so many things I tend to use email (even for following subscriptions on Twitter). For SSC I register for email notifications.
Gaz
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March 9, 2016 at 9:08 am
This article also mentioned some issues with Slack:
https://medium.com/better-people/slack-i-m-breaking-up-with-you-54600ace03ea#.92xacolmu
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March 9, 2016 at 9:09 am
Can you integrate your development tools with Skype for business/lync?
The messages we had flowing around were when someone was working on a code branch, submitting or updating stories to Jira, or creating supporting documentation on Confluence.
It was useful to see what build activity was going on on the CI server. I think these tools go a lot further than Lync etc.
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