A rhythm your team can count on
Covalentteam installs on your GitHub organisation and keeps the rhythm for you. It says who is due a 1:1, and what has happened to them since the last one.
The questions it is for
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Who have I not spoken to?
Their last 1:1, and the rhythm you agreed to keep.
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What has changed for them since?
A month of pull requests, reviews and issues, read as one picture.
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What has gone quiet?
Work that stopped moving, raised before it becomes a surprise.
Writing about leading a team
Notes from the people making Covalentteam, on the work the product is about.
Four things it asks for, once
Setup is a single sitting. After it, the month reads itself and the product comes to you.
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Bring your team in from GitHub
Everyone GitHub lists in your organisation stands here, on the team or not. Adding somebody puts them in the rail beside you and starts their month reading from that day, against the work GitHub reports under their handle.
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Define what matters most
Put the four disciplines in the order this team is run by.
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Choose what to hear about
What GitHub is allowed to raise, and how long it waits before raising silence. Every one of these is still yours to argue with once it lands — switching one off means it never arrives at all, which is worth doing for the ones your team has no use for.
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Say how often you meet
How often you meet somebody is an expectation rather than a diary. Nothing here books a conversation, and the month stays the window whatever is chosen — what a rhythm buys is a date on the colleague’s row, so the team can see who is overdue without anybody keeping a list of their own.
What we will not do to your team
The colleague being read never signed up for this and cannot see it. That is why none of these four is a setting.
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Nobody is given a number
A month comes back as one of four words, and the word is yours to disagree with. Never a position on a scale.
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A month, then it is gone
Activity ages out after a month. There is no year of somebody’s worst fortnight waiting to be produced at a review.
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The room stays the room
What is written in a 1:1 never leaves. The only thing you can share is how long you have kept a rhythm.
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A rhythm, not a diary
Nothing books a conversation. A date on a colleague’s row, so nobody has to keep a list about anybody.
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A letter about the work Now and then, on what we are building and what it has taught us.