Three rituals, done properly. No feature bloat, no mode you have to learn. Here's what each one does and how it gets out of your team's way.
Three prompts, a window you set, private responses, and a summary in Slack when time's up. Action items become Linear tickets in one click.
Tuesday at 10am: "What's blocking you?" posted in your engineering channel. Responses thread privately to the lead so blockers get triaged before Thursday standup.
What's blocking you this week? Reply privately.
Private reply — Blocked on SRE approval for new DB cluster (ticket open 4 days).
Escalated to lead · 2nd week in a rowPrivate reply — No blockers — rubber ducking a perf thing, might ask in thread later.
Four questions, four seconds to answer, once a month. Anonymous scores trended across rolling windows so drift surfaces before attrition does.
Cadence doesn't try to replace your existing stack. It picks up sprint data where your team already keeps it.
Start with one ritual, add others when the team's ready. No sales call.