The Science of Asynchronous

Collaboration
How to optimize the cognitive delivery path

Herve Roussel
Co-Founder at Quod AI

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 Slack + Zoom solved remote ... right 😅?
“Group chat is an all-day meeting with random people and no agenda.

Jason Fried, Co-Founder at Basecamp

“Don't take someone from their work (if you don't have to).

The Remote Manifesto, Sid Sijbrandij, Co-Founder & CEO GitLab

“Disruptions increases frustrations and tensions in dev teams.

The Daily Life of Software Developers, Meyer, Barr, Bird, and Zimmermann, Microsoft & IEEE

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 Synchronous Asynchronous
8am

9am

10am
❌ Interruption & context switch ✅ Deep work
11am

12pm

1pm ❌ Knee jerk response ✅ Quality response

2pm
VS
3pm

4pm
❌ Information scatter ✅ Recorded answer
5pm

6pm

7pm
Thoughtful written
communication

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 74.5%
Badly written doc
HackerRank Developer Skills Report (2019)

“High cognitive load would likely translate to slow learning & poor
code quality
Dr. Mikhail Filippov, Chief Scientist at Quod AI,
Honorary Research Fellow at UCL Dept. of Neuroscience.

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 4 pitfalls of dev comm.

New information ❌ Unclear problem

❌ Non adaptive path

❌ Lack of context
Current
understanding ❌ Distractions
Extraneous Germane

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 Unclear problem

⬆️Extraneous load 🤯 Shock

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 Non adaptive path

⬇️Germane load 📛 Personalize

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 Lack of context
?
?

It’s not
working

? ?
⬇️Germane load 📍Contextualize

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 Distractions

⬆️Extraneous load ‍ Focus

♀️

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How to get the most out of async?

🤯 Shock

📛 Personalize

📍Contextualize

‍ Focus
♀️
 Thank you
@hvroussel
herve@quod.ai

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