Having hundreds of emails in your inbox is not uncommon. But it's very uncommon to find people who successfully manage their inbox. Instead they let their inbox become a great black hole with no business value. Email has a bad name in business primarily because people don't treat email correctly. Email can be a vital tool to your company, and your software development project, but it has to be managed. Here's a series of rules that govern how we use our Inbox.
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