Asking Good Questions

How to ask questions at work that get fast, useful answers: being specific, showing your work, avoiding the XY problem, and picking the right channel for the moment.

1. Why Some Questions Get Answered Fast and Others Get Ignored What separates a question that gets a fast, useful answer from one that gets ignored: specificity, showing your work, and the XY problem.
2. The Question Template That Actually Works A reusable template for asking developer questions - what you're trying to do, what you expected, what actually happened, what you tried, and a minimal reproduction - with a bad question rewritten using it.
3. Async vs. Sync, and Reading the Room How to pick the right channel for a question - Slack, a ticket, a meeting, or walking over - how to respect focus time, and when to escalate past someone who hasn't answered.