The Status Hero Blog
Articles and resources to help teams communicate effectively, remove distractions, and work better together.
Productivity & Estimation
Increasing Focus With No Meeting Days (or Weeks!)
In a world where it's accepted that meetings are bad yet unavoidable, what’s the solution? How can we balance making time to get things done with the need to communicate with the rest of our team? That’s where no-meeting days come in.
Karl Hughes
September 8, 2021 8 minute read
Productivity & Estimation
Project Management with GitLab
GitLab is great for teams looking to manage the entire DevOps lifecycle inside of a single platform, with many teams using its project management features instead of a separate tool. Learn how you can manage complex projects effectively with GitLab's built-in features and improve visibility and team communication even more with a little help from some popular integrations.
Tanaka Mutakwa
September 1, 2021 8 minute read
Newsletter
Distractions and Communication Debt
Proactively and deliberately give yourself and your team a break.
Henry Poydar
August 27, 2021 2 minute read
Productivity & Estimation
Project Management with GitHub
Struggling to manage projects in GitHub? Learn how to use its features alongside third party tools to get organized and effectively run a project in GitHub.
Keanan Koppenhaver
August 24, 2021 6 minute read
Team Communication
Fixing Communication Debt In Remote Work Environments
While communication is critical, without discipline around managing it, team members end up dealing with a constant barrage of notifications and messages. So what can you do to fix it?
Mihir Patel
August 17, 2021 6 minute read
Leadership & Management
Making Time To Act Deliberately
As a leader, making time to act deliberately, plan long-term projects, and prioritize problems that need to be solved are among your most important functions. Neglecting them will harm your team much more than being a little slow to respond to emails and messages.
Karl Hughes
August 10, 2021 8 minute read
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