Team Rituals That Actually Stick
Six rituals you can introduce tomorrow that survive past month two — and three you should stop doing today.
Rituals are habits with a name. Pick the right name and they're harder to skip.
Keep
- Async standup in a Space — 3 lines, 10am local.
- Friday demo of one thing — anyone can present, no slides allowed.
- Monthly retro — written async, decided synchronously.
Stop
- Status update meetings — the dashboard exists.
- All-hands that aren't decisions — make them async write-ups.
- 1:1s with no agenda — both sides waste 30 minutes a week.
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