Go async-first with your team
Use the filters below to find async-first methods that are relevant to your team. For detailed articles, check out the blog.
- Audit trails
- Budgeting and funding
- Collaboration fundamentals
- Communication tools
- Company culture
- Design
- Efficient onboarding
- Enable change
- Estimation
- General management
- Inceptions
- Lead by example
- Leadership communication
- Learn the basics
- Meetings as the last resort
- Pairing and feature dev
- People management
- Personal productivity
- Planning
- Promote feedback
- Relationships
- Remote strategy
- Rethink scrum
- Simplify the story lifecycle
- Sprint management
- Team bonding
- Team commitments
- Team culture
Baton pass inception facilitation
Make time-zones your ally. By alternating facilitation responsibilities across locations, you can make cross timezone workshops and inceptions less stressful for everyone.
No hello
Imagine calling someone on the phone, going hello! then putting them on hold!
Baton pass pairing
Use the flexibility of remote work to work out your “pairing” hours. Get into the practice of writing good commit messages and pass on the baton.
3 amigos collaboration
Between the PO, tech lead and tester, you have representation for the three amigos of agile software development.
DoR & DoD
DoR allows the team to set a standard for user stories that developers pick up. The DoD ensures developers aren’t aiming for a moving target.
Revisit your workflow statuses and transitions
Most project management tools allow you to define a workflow for your team and visualise that workflow as a task board. When you revisit your workflow be careful not to design for the exceptions and worst-case scenarios.
Make the task-board the central communication tool
Most project management tools allow you to define a workflow for your team and visualise that workflow as a task board. Your task board should be the source of truth for all the work your team is up to.
Default to action
It’s much easier to apologise than to get permission. In this world of computers, the best thing to do is to do it.
Write a team API
Broadcast how your team will interact with other teams, using a TEAM API.
Make "async-first" part of your vocabulary
This play has examples of how you can bring the phrase “async-first” into everyday conversation, by making it a catchphrase.
Collaboration != real time
While there is value in getting people together, we need to acknowledge that collaboration and creativity have little correlation with synchrony.
Channels and response times
Agreeing on response times for various collaboration tools and channels that you use on the team is important.
Consent based decision making
Instead of trying to get everyone to agree on every decision, adopt a consent based decision making process as your default.