Ways to improve communication between members on a software team [closed]

Answer 1

As for #1: How about a new ideas post-it board? Create an area that is highly visible in the work environment. As ideas are discussed slap a reminder note on a sticky and put on the board. Keep the board partitioned into categories (ie UI, performance improvement, etc.). A responsible member can take charge to transcribe these to a full wiki, when detail needs adding or the idea is good enough that it deserves some true effort spent in design.

As for #2: If your team has trouble staying on target, then definitely the mtg organizer must take the time to prepare an agenda and adjudicate conversations stay on topic and insist that meeting ends on time. Leave the meeting knowing who must do what.

As for #3: Someone must lead the charge, find examples of the kinds of documentation and specs that you like to see and schedule some time with the team to review and discuss.

Answer 2

If we are talking about staying in touch in a way that replaces voice and text, check out http://CircleHubb.com. Not only can you have a discussion between members of the same group but you can share pdf and word documents, photos and videos. You can also make your group private or public. Their app is supposed to come out soon as well.

Answer 3

I think that a wiki or a internal blog could be excellent to document useful procedures for all team members.

But another interesting point is the communication between programmers when some programmer has a implementation doubt. For example: a programmer doesn't know how to implement some functionality. So, it could post your doubt in a "short messages application", like a twitter (but with more than 140 chars). Then, some developer that knows how to solve her doubt could post the solution. All the messages will be stored until the solution was found. So, all the other members of the team will look to this solution in future.

I think that this schema is nice, because sometimes the developer doesn't like to "waste a lot of time" writing a post on blog or something on wiki.