Keep your team informed
Tasks for this goal
- Summarize the stand-up
One summary with the blockers first, then what the team did and plans to do, and who hasn't posted yet.
- Turn meeting notes into action items
The decisions, the action items with owners and due dates, and a follow-up email to everyone who attended.
- Write the weekly team update
One update with what shipped, what is in progress, what is blocked and what comes next.
- Plan next month from last month's numbers
What changed and the likely reasons, with guesses marked, and three priorities for next month.
- Write the monthly investor update
An update with highlights, key numbers, what went wrong, what comes next and how investors can help.
- Summarize a long thread for someone who missed it
A short summary that names who decided what.
- See what changed in one part of your product
What changed for customers in the period you chose, with links.
- Find out what's holding up a project
The open items grouped by what they wait on, with who can move them.
- Find urgent issues that need an owner
The urgent issues that need an owner, oldest first, with how long they've waited and who could take them.
- Write up when and why something changed
A dated account of what changed, why and who approved it, with links, written for someone outside the team.
See one in action
leads
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@devboxes Summarize today's stand-up in #standup for the leads.
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One blocker today: Tom is waiting for the payment provider's test keys. The rest of the summary is attached, and Lisa and Nina haven't posted yet.
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