Hypercontext for Engineering Teams
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Don't mistake silence for contentment. Get your team motivated in a way where they feel in charge.
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It can be draining to think about what to ask during different meetings, let alone setting goals for your entire team. Leave the heavy lifting to us and use our templates to inspire better meetings and direction for your team.
The Ultimate One-on-one Meeting Template
Use this meeting agenda template as a starting point for your 1:1s. Both people own this meeting and are expected to add content to it.
Sprint Planning Team Meeting Template
These three agenda items will fuel your sprint planning. Talk about what wasn’t done, what needs to get done and issues/concerns along the way.
Weekly One-on-one Meeting Template
Use this weekly agenda to have productive conversations with your team: check in on goals, collect feedback, share wins, detect red flags and more.
Sailboat Retrospective Meeting Template
The sailboat retro is a collaborative and fun way to reflect on the sprint with the whole team.
Peer to Peer One-on-one Meeting Template
Peer to peer one-on-ones are valuable for cross-departmental teams, feedback and collaboration.
Scrum Team Meeting Template
Whether you’re in-person or working asynchronously, these 10-minute pulse checks will keep you and your team on top of your sprint.
7 Software Engineer Goal Examples
7 specifically crafted OKR and Goal examples for Software Engineers. Submitted by and for software engineering managers.
Improve your network outside of your team
Great people work here and you should meet them all. Reach out to people outside your team to grow your network and hear from the different perspectives from the people that are part of our company.
8 Engineering Manager Goal Examples
8 specifically crafted OKR and Goal examples for engineering managers. Submitted by the managers themselves.
Ensure 100% of critical systems are backed up nightly within a quarter
To mitigate against irreversible damage to our systems let’s ensure we have accurate and timely backups of critical systems to limit data loss.
15 DevOps Goal Examples
Need inspiration setting DevOps goals? Check out the examples below to get started. Including contributions from The Managing Dev and Stack.io.
Improve sprint goal delivery
For us to stay on track and deliver on the product roadmap, it’s imperative that we are consistently delivering on our sprint goals every cycle. Let’s ensure that we’re continuing to improve on our spring goal deliveries.
Engineering goals: How to set goals for high-performing teams
In this article, we'll walk through how engineering managers can set goals for high-performing teams, including role-specific and professional development examples to help get you started.
Engineering managers: How to reduce drag on your team
Reducing drag will help your engineering team move faster. In this article, Hypercontext's Senior Engineering Manager, Chris Fraser, walks us through how he reduces drag to improve velocity.
8 Totally different engineers share candid feedback about 1:1s
Engineering leaders… Your one-size-fits-all approach to management won’t work.
A remote engineering manager’s guide to amazing one-on-one meetings
Four things that every remote engineering manager should do to have amazing one-on-ones with their direct reports.
49 Manager ReadMes from Slack, Netflix, Google and more (a lot more)
Manager readmes are user manuals written by managers on their management style, philosophies, expectations, communication preferences, and more. It’s like a “how to guide” for employees getting to know – and working for – their bosses.
4 Types of agile meetings and what’s on their agendas
In this article, we review some basics about the Agile method, the Agile meetings you need on your calendar and agenda templates to run them.
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High-performing teams run effective meetings
The most valuable time a manager has with their team is during one-on-ones and team meetings. That’s why we built Hypercontext: to make this crucial time more organized, efficient, and meaningful.