The more you use Slack, the more you want to use it. Although you’ll get tired of Slackbots responses like ‘Sup’ within about 1 to 10 messages, if that. Depending on how creative you want to be, bots can be productive, funny or just plain annoying. We’ve had people have fairly long conversations with Slackbot, all be it slightly insane conversations. It is genuinely entertaining, to start with… It can be really amusing. If you’ve never used a bot before, then you’re missing out. Slackbot is possibly the best marketing trick for geeks I’ve seen in a while. So – that’s the background, here’s my 20 thoughts on Slack so far in no particular order: 1. Someone setup a Slack account (I’ll take that credit) and started inviting others, gradually the trial audience grew to a point where I think just about everyone now has an account. Our trial was pretty non specific in nature, we just wanted to dive in and see if Slack lived up the hype. (Which we felt a good mix for the trial). We’ve a mixture of other people too as you would expect, but the bulk of the users of our Slack trial are dev, test, UI designers, support and Product type folks. In all about 5 Scrum teams working 2 week sprints, who mostly used Skype for IM, screen sharing and video calls.
To set the scene, we have teams in London, a team in Mumbai and a few distributed individuals dotted around the planet on various time zones. We’re not a startup, we’re an established business all be it one that’s open to trying new stuff. These thoughts are through the eyes of a Product Manager at a company in London that uses Jira, Confluence, email and Skype for most collaborative type things. So I wanted to share my thoughts in the fairly assured knowledge that there are indeed other companies just like us using or thinking of using Slack. Maybe I didn’t look hard enough, who knows. I’ve never really found one that made me think ‘wow they’re just like us’. There are loads of articles out there on ‘Why Slack’ or ‘Slack vs’ whatever. I wanted to share some thoughts on Slack, we’ve been trialling it with the teams here and it’s been interesting to see things evolve over the last few weeks.
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