Async practice
6 articles on async practice.
Right to Disconnect Is a Policy. Coverage Is a System.
A right to disconnect protects your time on paper. Whether the work waits or gets covered is a separate problem, and only one of them is solved.
The Handoff Checklist That Takes 90 Seconds
A copyable engineering handoff checklist you can fill in under two minutes, so the next person can pick up your work without waiting for you.
Async Standup Formats, and When Each One Fails
Three async standup formats for distributed teams, what each one is good at, and the exact point where each one quietly stops working.
Where Context Falls Through Between Linear and Slack
Linear holds the what. Slack holds the why. The context that matters lives between them, and that is exactly where it gets lost.
Onboarding a Remote Engineer Who Cannot Ask Anyone
A practical guide to onboarding a remote engineer across time zones, when the answers they need are hours away and nobody is online to ask.
What Good Teams Do Differently at Shift Change
How distributed teams hand off clean at shift change: what to write, what to leave open, and how to keep work moving across time zones.
Your team’s week, answered from the work.
If this is your team’s week, see what a StandIn does with it.