Go async-first with your team.
If you and your team wish to work async-first and you’re not sure which practices to adopt, you've reached the right place. This method stack offers ideas for small changes you can implement on your team to go async-first, one step at a time. The launch video on this page (from a few years back) offers a quick overview.
Use the filters below to find async-first methods that are relevant to your team. For detailed articles, check out the blog.
Festina lente
There’s an expression in Latin - festina lente. It means “make haste slowly”. We optimise for speed in software development. Deep work is often the casualty in this quest for speed. Slowing things down through writing has several benefits.
Channels and response times
Agreeing on response times for various collaboration tools and channels that you use on the team is important.
Write your ways of working
Writing up your team’s ways of working wrt collaboration, the environments, tools and project metrics is a good start.