Posts tagged with "async"

A copy-paste async standup format that survives contact with a real team — plus the version where the updates write themselves from your GitHub activity.

The daily standup exists because a team can't see what changed for 24 hours at a time. Fix the visibility, and the meeting loses its reason to exist.

Most retros die from repetition. This five-question async template rotates prompts, caps answers at two sentences, and ends with exactly one experiment. Copy it and adapt.

Sprint review is a demo, not a status report. Here's how to move it async: a written review format, a 24-hour window, and the rules that keep it from quietly dying.

The first week of onboarding is mostly waiting for people to have time for you. Here's how small teams use async artifacts — the board, the repo, the decision trail — to get a new hire shipping in days, not weeks.

Post-mortems ask why the project failed after it failed. A pre-mortem asks the same question while you can still do something about it. Copy this six-question template and run it in 20 minutes, async.

The daily standup is a 15-minute meeting that costs an hour of focus. Here's a step-by-step system for replacing it with async updates generated from the work your team already did in GitHub — no new rituals required.