How to run a 15-minute weekly planning meeting
A simple agenda, one shared board and three questions. What we learned from running the same meeting every Monday for two years.
Notes on doing good work with a small team
Practical guides on planning, meetings and hand-offs, and the thinking behind what we build.
Writing task titles your teammates can act on
Start with a verb, name the outcome and leave the context for the description. A short checklist for clearer tasks.
New in September: recurring tasks and saved filters
Weekly reports now create themselves, and everyone can keep the board filtered the way they like it.
Async stand-ups that people actually read
Three short prompts, a fixed time and one rule about replies. How to replace the daily call without losing touch.
A simple way to set work-in-progress limits
Pick a number per column, write it in the header and talk about it when you hit it. That's most of it.
Designing the Monday digest
Why we send one email a week instead of dozens of notifications, and what we cut to keep it to two minutes.
Handing off projects when someone goes on leave
A hand-off doc template, a 30-minute walkthrough and a named backup for every open task.
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