Go async-first with your team.
If you and your team wish to work async-first and you’re not sure which practices to adopt, you've reached the right place. This method stack offers ideas for small changes you can implement on your team to go async-first, one step at a time. The launch video on this page (from a few years back) offers a quick overview.
Use the filters below to find async-first methods that are relevant to your team. For detailed articles, check out the blog.
Codebase README
A great place to document the static/stable stuff on the project is right in the codebase, in a good, old README file, at the top level of your project folder.
Study the pioneers
Learn from the industry pioneers like Gitlab, Automattic, BaseCamp, Doist about asynchronous work.
Introduce the spectrum of synchronousness
Distributed agile needs a shift-left to move from a fully synchronous medium to a fully asynchronous medium.
Identify value
Asynchronous work is a means to an end: an end that wholly synchronous ways of working cannot achieve.
Build the reading habit
Build the reading muscle, start with anything that interests you. It’ll help you get more productive with your asynchronous work experience.
Take the writing course
Writing is the number one async and remote superpower. How about you hone that craft?