The 1:1 Playbook
A complete playbook for weekly 1:1s: the default structure, scripts for announcing and running them, failure modes with fixes, and remote and AI-era variations.
Read the playbook →Playbooks
Field notes argue one idea at a time, and the field guide maps a territory. A playbook is the runnable layer: the moves for one recurring leadership situation, specific enough to run this week. Each one gives you the default play, scripts you can adapt, the failure modes with fixes, and the variations that matter.
They're written for humans first, and structured so an AI agent pointed at any page can use it too. Every playbook is free, as a page and as a PDF, no email required.
Playbooks
THE TEAM CYCLE · PLAYBOOK FAMILY
Four ceremonies, one loop. Plan the work, run the day, show the work, then look at how the work went.
The Planning Playbook
Most teams go through the motions in sprint planning, pulling stories in with little discussion or simply getting handed a list of what's in the sprint and told to start.
Read the playbook →The Standup Playbook
Most standups have become status meetings where everyone takes a turn, says what they did yesterday and what they're doing today, and the meeting ends with the same work sitting in the same place, all about the people and not the work.
Read the playbook →The Review Playbook
A complete playbook for the review: how it differs from the demo, scripts for converting and running one, failure modes with fixes, and AI-era variations.
Read the playbook →The Retrospective Playbook
A complete playbook for retrospectives: scripts for running one and rescuing a grump and dump, failure modes with fixes, follow-through, and AI-era variations.
Read the playbook →Feedback · Playbook Family
One discipline, three directions. Take one, or the whole set.
The Giving Feedback Playbook
A complete playbook for giving feedback: the ask-first default play, scripts, calibrating for power and experience, failure modes with fixes, and AI-era practice.
Read the playbook →The Receiving Feedback Playbook
A complete playbook for receiving feedback: naming the type before you react, finding the true part, receiving with power, failure modes with fixes, and AI-era practice.
Read the playbook →The Soliciting Feedback Playbook
A complete playbook for soliciting feedback: choosing who to ask, the named specific ask, listening without defending, failure modes with fixes, and AI-era practice.
Read the playbook →Templates
A template is the fill-in layer: a document your team completes together, once, and keeps. A playbook you read and run; a template you sit down and fill in.
Agent Rollout Pre-Flight Checklist
A one-page checklist to send every team lead before the first agent rollout — six questions worth answering ahead of time.
Read the checklist →The AI Operating Model for Teams
A one-page reference for how a team works once agents do real work — the shifts, the tier scale, the values tie-break, and who answers for the outcome.
Read the one-pager →Definition of Verified
What verified means for agent-produced work on your team — written down before something ships that shouldn't have.
Read the template →Agent Incident Runbook
The plan you fill in before your first agent incident.
Read the template →This shelf grows. New playbooks are added as they clear review.