As discussed in the asynchronous communications guide, written communications are a cornerstone of working at LinkORB.

In addition to specific topic and task discussions in Cyans and HQ, each LinkORB team member is asked to provide a brief status update every week that includes:

  • Completed tasks since the last update🏁
  • Planned work until the next update🔮

Other relevant update items are:

  • Requests for assistance when unsure who to ask
  • Reminders about expected absences or vacations
  • Key performance indicators (KPIs). We love numbers!
  • Fun things 😺 like jokes, a photo from your holiday, a reminder about a special event in your country, or any other personal updates you would like to share.

Please know that everyone wants the weekly update to be quick and painless to create as well as fun and painless to read. It’s fine to keep it short and it’s fine to drop in a meme!

The remainder of this guide will address the following topics.

Types of Updates

Depending on your role, you may be required to provide one or more of the following types of updates:

Project updates

Project owners can view their respective projects at the owned projects dashboard. Project updates can be initiated from the dashboard by selecting +Add update from the Last Update column.

Alternatively from within the project, owners can select the Update tab from the project menu. The +Update button will open the project update input.

Project updates can be edited after saving and while only one project update per week is suggested, HQ will allow creation of multiple.

Task updates and announcements

All team members can provide task updates and other announcements through dedicated Slack channels and Cyans topics.

Daily/weekly check-ins

We encourage each team member to check-in and check-out at the start and at the end of each work day respectively. This daily exercise helps you:

  • plan/prioritize tasks
  • fix blockers, and;
  • gives the team an idea of what you’ve been working on