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#215 - The Async First Playbook: Build Effective and Inclusive Teams with Less Meetings - Sumeet Moghe

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May 5, 2025
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Sumeet Moghe
Sumeet Moghe, an Agile enthusiast and product manager at Thoughtworks, shares insights from his book, The Async-First Playbook. He discusses the pitfalls of excessive meetings and how async communication can boost productivity. Sumeet reveals intriguing survey results about remote work preferences and explains why companies like GitLab and Automattic thrive by prioritizing written communication. He emphasizes inclusion in async work, empowering diverse team members, and introduces the ConveRel Quadrants for effective meeting strategies.
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ADVICE

Create Async Team Handbook

  • Write down your team's async working guidelines in a handbook to avoid assumptions.
  • Start with sensible defaults and iteratively improve from feedback.
ADVICE

Use ConveRel Quadrants for Meetings

  • Use the ConveRel quadrants to decide when meetings are appropriate based on relationship strength and purpose.
  • Prefer async for information sharing; meet for decisions especially with weak relationships.
INSIGHT

Async Work Boosts Inclusion

  • Async work empowers inclusion by accommodating language fluency, parenting duties, and neurodiversity.
  • It fights bias by letting all team members thoughtfully contribute regardless of status or background.
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