Workplace and Communication
Learn about the steps needed for building communication structures in a large team and the usefulness of establishing an independent communication team.
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Encouraging communication
The difficulty in working with a large team is looking for ways to ensure efficient communication. These steps are valuable for setting up a communication structure:
- All project members should sit as close together as possible without crowding each other.
- The retrospectives performed after each iteration and release cycle serve as a forum for direct communication. Typically, we will find that optimizing space and improving direct communication for the daily work will be a regular topic until it is resolved.
- Regularly scheduled meetings for all project members are essential. Such meetings are primarily a mode of information transfer. Typically, there are too many people in these meetings for there to be any effective feedback or extensive discussions, but they work well for one-directional information transfer. Therefore, every project member should be able to contribute—in the form of a lecture about a specific topic, for example. It is a good idea to announce the contents of