How to handle team communication?

Team communication is the foundation of team collaboration. To work together, you must communicate. To work together well, you have to make sure your team communication is stellar.

Communication formats and channels

The specific forms and types of communication that take place will depend on your field of work, and the structure of your team. Here’s a non-exhaustive list of team communication channels:

• Verbal team communication: team meetings, one-on-one interactions, water-cooler conversations, calls
• Written communication: paper documentation, electronic documentation, emails, team chat, tasks

Channels which i preffer for team communication:

• Slack - As daily real-time communication
• Email - As high priority communication with longer response time good history log
• Issue Tracker - Place to discuss development and related work

Importance of Team Communication

Most people who have worked in teams would agree on the importance of team communication. It seems almost commonsensical that communication affects a team’s performance, morale and work enjoyment levels.