June 20, 2026

A weekly rhythm for teams of two to ten

Process for small teams should cost about twenty minutes a week. Anything heavier gets abandoned by the third week. This is the shape that survives.

Monday: publish a plan, once

Fifteen minutes, everyone in the same document, one plan for the week. Not a discussion of priorities in the abstract, a list of what is actually going to be done and by whom. Publish it so it is a snapshot rather than a living argument.

Daily: Today, and nothing else

No standup where everyone reads their list aloud. If the plan is published and Today is accurate, the standup is a five-line message about what is blocked. That is the only part anyone needed.

Friday: read the gap

Compare the published plan to what happened. Not to assign blame, to calibrate. Teams that do this for a month stop over-committing almost automatically, because the evidence is right there.

What to skip

Estimates in hours, story points, and any ritual that exists to produce a chart nobody acts on. At this size the chart is the meeting.

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