A worthy Slack competitor? [slash-hyphen newsletter]

Most of the Slack installations we see at slash-hyphen make a big mistake. Instead of focusing on granularity and creating narrowly scoped channels, they create a few channels with too much noise. The slash-hyphen blog has the answer to that noise.

Slack organizes all of a team’s conversations and opens them up to the rest of an organization. This can fall apart when interlopers from outside a team interrupt conversations to ask questions. We share a strategy for keeping interuptions down on our blog.

If the rumor mill is to be believed, Microsoft is taking Slack head on under the Skype umbrella. This could be a big threat because Skype is bundled with Office365 (which many organizations already pay for).

Process Street helps organizations use checklists to ensure that work gets done consistently and on time. They’re still working on a Slack integration, but it works well on its own in the meantime.

Adam Zimman shares his playbook for deploying Slack in an organization through Wu-Tang Clan references. We love the way he thinks about which teams in an organization should get Slack first.