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Everyone writes a two-minute check-in when it suits them. Tidewell sends one digest at 9:30 with blockers first, so the meeting only happens when something needs a decision.
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Platform team digest
Tue, 14 Oct · 6 of 7 checked in · 2 blockers
Blocked
Maya Okafor
BlockedBilling webhook retries need a decision on idempotency keys before I can merge.
Lena Kraus
BlockedWaiting on staging DB credentials from IT, ticket opened Monday.
Moving
Diego Ramos
Shipped the new rate limiter to 10% of traffic. p95 is flat.
Jun Park
Migrated 41 of 52 cron jobs to the queue. Rest by Thursday.
4 min
Median digest read
3.2 h
Meetings cut weekly
91%
Check-ins on time
How it works
Write it once, read it once, meet only when it matters
Before the digest
Everyone checks in when it suits them
Three prompts take two minutes: what moved, what is next and what is in the way. A single reminder goes out 30 minutes before the digest, and only to people who have not written yet.
Your check-in
Due 09:30
What moved
Shipped the rate limiter to 10% of traffic. p95 flat.
What is next
Roll out to 50% and add the dashboard alert.
What is in the way
Need sign-off on the retry budget from Maya.
As soon as it is written
Blockers go straight to the person who can fix them
Mark an item blocked and Tidewell pings its owner directly, with the context attached. If it sits for a day, it moves to the top of the team lead's digest.
Blocker raised
2 min ago
Diego Ramos
BlockedNeed sign-off on the retry budget before the 50% rollout.
Sent to Maya Okafor, owner of billing-service
now
Maya opened it with the context attached
+3 min
Moves to the lead's digest if still open
+24 h
Every morning
One digest per team, in everyone's own morning
Each team picks a time. The digest lands at that hour in each person's time zone and skips weekends and public holidays.
Digest schedule
Mon–Fri
Platform
7 people · Lisbon
09:30
Growth
5 people · New York
09:00
Mobile
6 people · Berlin
10:00
Product
The details that make the habit stick
Five things teams ask for in the first month, already built in.
Shipped the rate limiter to 10% of traffic
PR #482
MergedRoll out to 50% and add the dashboard alert
ENG-211
In reviewRetry budget needs sign-off
ENG-198
BlockedLinked to the work
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idempotency keys
Maya, 12 Sep
Decided on idempotency keys per webhook
Lena, 3 Oct
Retries wait on the keys decision
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Reminder to 2 people
09:00
Digest sent to the team
09:30
One reminder, only if needed
A single nudge 30 minutes before the digest, and only to people who have not written.
“Six of us across four time zones joined a 9am call for updates nobody remembered. Now the digest is waiting when I open my laptop, and we meet twice a week to decide things.”
Priya Nair
Engineering manager, Northbeam
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