team-communication

What is the best way to encourage communication in a team?

I work in a medium sized team (20+ developers) where I believe communication amongst team members is not as good as it could be. Like most teams, I suppose, we have several systems that we build and maintain. We also use dozens of varied tools in our work such as Visual Studio 2008, Subversion, Resharper, Tibco, TeamCity etc. We also d...

Team communication (especially via email) - open or closed by default?

I am a reasonably experienced C# developer (about 5 year experience) that has recently been put in charge of my first development team as technical lead (varying between 3-5 other developers). Over the last 4 months in this role, one dilemma that keeps arising is trying to find the right degree of sharing awareness of the communication t...