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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
  • Reviewing deliverables

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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