2024-09-29 · Clara Weber

Async handoffs that survive Golden Week

Golden Week and long EU holidays expose brittle handoffs. We teach teams to lean on ADRs, annotated merge commits, and short Loom-style summaries stored next to the repo — not buried in chat scrollback.

We dissect a real anonymized thread where a decision lived only in Slack. The rewrite shows how the same decision would look in Git notes and a linked issue, including the explicit non-goals section we require.

We finish with a modest promise: async hygiene reduces meetings, but it cannot remove the need for occasional synchronous trust building — we schedule those deliberately, not as a leak from unclear Git history.

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