The Status Hero Blog
Articles and resources to help teams communicate effectively, remove distractions, and work better together.
Leadership & Management
Grassroots Process
Avoid creating processes, especially ones that only serve management. When it is absolutely required, rely on people close to the work to propose and design it. The longer you can hold off, the faster your team will be, especially over the long run.
Michael Karampalas
September 26, 2020 3 minute read
Leadership & Management
How To Fix a Broken Team
If your team is broken, it’s (mostly) your fault. Take a deep breath, figure out the issues, and develop plans to solve them with help from your team. It’s not too late.
Michael Karampalas
August 17, 2021 4 minute read
Team Communication
You're Not Communicating Enough with Your Team
It’s your job as manager to share information with your team. If they are kept in the dark, rumors and uneasiness settle in, and that’s on you. Default to over-communication.
Michael Karampalas
July 20, 2021 4 minute read
Product Updates
How App Developers at Messapps use Status Hero
Editor’s note: this is a guest post from Vasily Malyshev, founder and CEO of Messapps, an app development firm headquartered in New York City with remote team members scattered across the globe. The firm’s mascot is named ‘Messy.’ As CEO at Messapps, an app development...
February 23, 2021 3 minute read
People & Culture
Monday Routines: C. Todd Lombardo, Chief Design Strategist at Fresh Tilled Soil
This is the second installment of ‘Monday Routines’, in which software people like you recount their Monday rituals. The goal is to peer into their day-to-day patterns and habits as they lead teams, collaborate, and deliver great software. Hopefully you’ll discover a tidbit or two...
January 22, 2021 5 minute read
Team Communication
How to Dial-In a Productive Slack Configuration
We’ve been using Slack for a over a year now at Status Hero HQ. After quite a bit of trial and error, we think we’ve hit upon a setup that favors productivity over distraction. In this post, we’ll show you how to dial-in a productive...
January 15, 2021 7 minute read
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