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Alex Harris
Alex Harris

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What can Slack tell me about my developer team's culture?

What can Slack tell me about my developer team's culture?

Surprisingly, a lot!

At Adadot.com we analysed data in 35,000 developer datasets from GitLab, GitHub, Slack and Google Calendar. Here are some findings:

The vast majority of messages will always be Direct messages to colleagues and that's normal. When the ratio of public vs private messages falls below 10% this can create a number of issues

📃 More need for documentation. If solutions are not being shared openly in a searchable environment like Slack, it means you will need to formally document more.

🤗 Culture of safety. If developers are not feeling confident enough to raise challenges or solutions publicly are you seeing the effects somewhere else, for example overall code quality?

🔎 Visibility. Are the engineering leaders leading by example by being visible across the team and / or the organisation?

Some of the best performing teams we see either:

Have a higher public vs private message ratio than 10%

or

Are actively working to increase it

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