Meetings and Frameworks
We tried to discuss all of our tasks during online sync-ups—long, inefficient, and honestly, impossible. There was no time to hear and clarify everyone's opinions. We managed to go over only about 20% of 100 issues planned—the team got tired and unfocused after the first hour. Communication was clearly a challenge for us.
“Communication is the biggest challenge. It is difficult to know what each team and person is prioritizing and how they like to work.” Hiten Shah
We decided to filter the issues through prioritization frameworks. The frameworks introduced criteria that structured the evaluation. The teammates assigned scores by the criteria asynchronously at their convenience. We started with Google Sheets and discussed only tasks with high scores.