Abdu's Garden

Plain-Text crew

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Teams need to be on the same page

Best way is to talk but that’s fleeting and unscalable and is very unreliable as the human memory falters easily The solution is documentation!!!

The best way to consolidate your work is to document it in writing.

The solution is what programmers use…Git!

Thanks to Git and the websites that support it, such as GitHub and GitLab, we can work together on projects from a few text document to thousands of thousands modules and files.

This reliance on plain text, in the form on Markdown, which is a text format that’s great for both unrendered and rendered rich text, is the best possible environment for documenting, as it’s very lightweight and universal. Everything from README files to Wikis are written in Markdown, including these very word.

GitHub Organizations

GitHubRepository

  • The foundation of it all is the GitHub Repository
  • Every Repo should have a Wiki or README file written in Markdown that explains everything there is to know about a project, especially if it needs instructions. #GitHubIssues
  • A simple task system for tracking features and tasks that need to be done #GitHubMilestones
  • These are groupings of issues that are enriched with a deadline and can only be completed once every issue is implemented and taken care of
  • The have a title, a description, and a date. Nothing more! #GitHubProjects
  • A kanban project board to group issues and observe their progress
  • A lightweight no fluff alternative to Trello and other task-list/kanban apps
  • Something that you can use with your team during your morning meetings #GitHubOrganizations
  • Sort of like your company, an umbrella of users if you will
  • Build your products in the open (open source) #GitHubActions
  • Can be used to automate testing
  • However, with a little creativity they can do so much more, perhaps even run your company if you’re smart enough

Standup Meetings

You only need one, and go over your tasks from right to left instead of that awful what x did yesterday and what they’re doing today? format that most use. Ask team members if they have blockers (tasks that are difficult and they’re stuck on) and give them 24hrs before assigning someone to help them.

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