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Glue work

10 May 2025

Title: Being Glue — No Idea Blog (article)
Author: Reilly, Tanya

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Glue works helps team be successful by accelerating them, bringing people together or unblocking them.

Forms of glue work

  • Bringing necessary people together in a (digital) meeting room
  • Streamlining processes
  • Runbooks and documentation
  • Unblocking or on boarding engineering

glue work is often underappreciated, and depending on your job title, it sets expectations of how much glue work you’re supposed to do.

References

Being Glue — No Idea Blog Archived article


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