What happens when a team moves from a meeting-centric culture, to a writing-centric way of working? Snehal Wajpe believes that this “async-first” approach has helped her team unleash new synergies.

Priya Darshini and her team, had always practiced software development, in a colocated fashion. When they moved to a remote way of working, their tried and trusted collaboration patterns needed an async-first twist. This article chronicles her team’s journey of tiny steps to be more async.

Feedback is a gift which some of us are very generous with. Naji recently wrote an article about giving feedback asynchronously. But it’s equally important for us to ask for, receive and process async feedback in the right way. The lack of facial and audio cues that we use in face-to-face and Zoom meetings can make this challenging. This post will help you learn how to receive feedback asynchronously.

In the pre-pandemic world, we’d share almost all feedback in a synchronous fashion; either in-person or over a call. In the new normal, an asynchronous alternative can be more effective and timely. Mohamed Najiullah shares his advice on how you can give your colleagues effective feedback in writing.

Looks like meetings are missing the mark. Not to mention, synchronous meetings aren’t a reliable way to communicate across multiple time zones and geographic locations. Luckily, live syncs aren’t the only way to touch base with your distributed team and understand how work is progressing day-to-day. This is where async standups can help. Dan Pupius, co-founder and CEO of Range.co explains how he’s building a product to do just that.