When You Are the Only One Who Knows What Is Going On
You can't take a Friday off because three people would need to text you to keep working. That's not a scheduling problem. That's the whole business running through one head.
Dean Halloway
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Lived Operations
How small teams actually operate day to day.
Nobody Reads the Long Update
After a missed deadline, teams write more: daily standups, longer reports, detailed minutes. It decays faster than what it replaced, and for a specific reason.
Odile Rennick
The Difference Between a Blocker and a Question
Most teams have one flag for two different problems, and it makes distributed work stall for reasons that were never actually blocking.
Dean Halloway
What Happens to Your Projects When Someone Leaves
The exit interview covers laptops and access cards. It rarely covers the fact that the only record of why a client decision was made lived in one person's head, and that head is now working somewhere else.
Odile Rennick
How to Hand Off a Production Deployment Without Writing a Novel
A good deployment handoff isn't a status update — it's the minimum information someone needs to keep going if something breaks after you log off. Here's the format that actually survives 2 a.m.
Odile Rennick
What a Good Friday Client Report Actually Contains
A weekly report exists to answer next week's questions this week. Most reports fail because they document effort instead of decisions.
Elena Prentice
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