Today I introduced the idea of tweeting to our development team at work. We don't actually use twitter but the basic concept is the same. Someone tweets and other reply, like or share. You can also mention topics and people.
It actually works really well in a development team. It is like having a continual start of day that lasts all day. If an impediment or question is raised everyone in the team will see it at once. If anyone has a question they can post it and anyone in the know can answer at their leisure. This means you don't need to disturb people while they are in mid-flow. Even better the team leader knows exactly what is going on at all times and does not need to ask.
Treating bug/feature ids and key words as topics starts to build up a knowledge base that can be searched so that the same questions need not be re-answered. It also helps organise the tweets into useful streams of conversations.
While this is a very new idea to most of my colleagues it is not really that new in the software development world. Issue trackers like JIRA have in built activity streams that allow tagging of users and issues. We are just being left behind because we use TFS.
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