Async Doesn’t Mean Invisible

April 4, 2025

“Why did we choose that API design again?”

If your team is async, that answer probably isn’t in your sprint notes or Zoom recordings.

It’s buried in a Slack thread from 6 months ago.
Between an engineer in Berlin and a tech lead in Boston.
Over 3 days. In 2 channels.

This is a problem for modern teams.

Important decisions get lost in casual chats, with no record or structure.

This is not just a visibility issue. It’s also a continuity issue.

We need dedicated places where async decisions can live and stay connected to the work they impact.

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Truth!

Like • Evan Fishman - Rally for Jira likes this

it's even worse when one (or more) of the team leave and once their accounts are closed you no longer even have access to the chats

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Async Doesn’t Mean Invisible