Stands for “working group” For cross-functional teams working together.įor teammates in the same location to connect. #announce-company, #announce-sales, #announce-eng #ask-sales, #ask-marketing, #ask-people-teamįor important announcements your team needs to know. To ask questions or find information from other teams or departments. If you see find a channel that does not follow these, request to rename it in #ask-it-tech-opsįor teams to coordinate work and activities among themselves. To help with navigation and discoverability, follow these naming conventions for channels. Exception requests will be reviewed and approved on a case-by-case basis. We have no way to know when new channels requiring an exception are created.

Important: You must notify Tech Ops (in #Tech-Ops) when you create a new channel requiring an exception to the default 180-day rule (even if it falls into an existing exception).To enforce this, only 180 days of Slack activity in public channels is retained. Slack is not a source of truth which means important updates that may be shared in Slack should be reflected in a source of truth. Read on for best practices and processes we follow as a company. All teammates are encouraged to join the following company-wide channels to stay informed on news happening across the company. While Slack isn’t a source of truth, it is an important internal communication tool that helps us stay connected and informed. We use Slack for team chat and real-time announcements.

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