My progress towards communicating effectively with my teammates



To support our communication throughout our remote internship, my teammates and I set up daily team meetings as interns to use for our pod standups to discuss our progress based on our weekly goals and any blockers we are experiencing. These pod meetings have been a great time to ask about the different tasks we complete asynchronously. Additionally, we set up a team chat channel to post any questions we have outside our daily pod meetings. Our team's chat channel has been helpful to me because I often face bugs that one of my teammates has resolved, and asked my teammates saves me a lot of time trying to figure out how to debug my code.

Although I currently face no challenges communicating with my teammates after starting the chat channel and daily meeting, I had challenges before these innovations. I found it hard to give my teammates feedback, especially when one of our teammates is not taking an equal share of the project workload. By having an intern-exclusive meeting, we have become comfortable requesting feedback from each other and trusting that regardless of the feedback we receive, our teammates intend to help us get better and achieve the team project goals. I have found the feedback from my teammates very productive, especially when I get distracted from my weekly goals into extra tasks that are good but not core for the project. It is also helpful to get timely feedback from my teammates since we meet more frequently than I meet with my mentors and manager.

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