Async workflows
Reply Windows: Setting a Response Boundary for a Nine-Person Team
The team's median reply time was 11 minutes during working hours, which sounds excellent until the distribution is examined: 34…
Async workflows
Written processes that keep moving when nobody is online at the same time.
Async workflows
Written Updates Over Standups: Six Weeks Without a Morning Call
Nine people had spent 14 minutes a morning in a call that produced, on average, one decision a week. The…
Async workflows
Friday Handover Notes: A Five-Month Habit That Survived
Monday mornings used to cost the team 40 minutes of reconstruction, measured by timing the first status message of the…
Async workflows
The Async Design Review: 48 Hours Instead of One Hour
Nineteen comments arrived in the first hour of a live design review, and eleven of them contradicted each other. The…
Async workflows
Decision Records: 31 Decisions in One Quarter and What They Changed
Thirty-one decisions were written down in a quarter by a team that had never kept a record, and 12 of…
Async workflows
Async Interviews: Running a Hiring Loop Without a Live Call
Eleven candidates went through a hiring loop with no live interview, and nine of them completed the whole process within…
Async workflows
Documenting Exceptions: What Happens When the Rule Does Not Fit
Forty-two exceptions were granted in one quarter against a policy with eleven written rules, and 31 of them were granted…