Imagine starting your day without meetings
No more sprints, stand-ups, or tickets. Just focus on what's important NOW
your team focus on what matters.
We'll let you know you are able to give NOW a try
PROBLEM:
Project Management Culture
NOW is built to counter the current culture of project management systems where management teams are forced to create processes that fit work
into these neat little boxes that can be cut, measured, tracked and distributed.
The issues is work doesn't work that way.
Problems don't look all look the same, and certainly not to each person involved.
Why Agile failed us...
At the heart of the problem is how "we" (people) communicate.
We communicate best collaboratively, engaged in conversation with a few people at most.
The problem with tools like Jira, Trello, Asana, and others is lively conversation doesn't fit into their structure.
They are built to break down and track individual moving parts. Conversations don't fit that mold.
So teams looks for ways to supplement their tools with Slack, emails, confluence, and other documentation sources
which fragments information and doesn't provide a clear, linear narrative for people to follow and understand.
So we compensate by over-communicating. We meet, we stand-up, we sprint, we plan, we review, we retro, we meet again.
We get to a place where a two week sprint leaves us with about 5 days of actual heads down time.
SOLUTION:
Imagine starting your day like this...
You boot into work, in front of you is a blank document with today's date.
On this document is a simple sentence.
What we're trying to accomplish right now.
You describe what you need to do, and what you'll need to do it.
Your team members join in the conversation.
All conversation has context, there are no tickets to track, no sprints to plan.
You simply get to work...
That's it.
At the end of the day, a recap is created, and a page is added to chapter of the story that is your team.
Project management never needed to be complicated. It became complicated because people had to invent reasons to use complicated tools.
Tools that were not build with understanding how we communicate. Tools that were built to show higher up numbers, at the cost of simplicity and efficiency.
WHY NOW EXISTS:
Bad project management kills companies
“Companies don't just die. They kill themselves.”
As I've written about in the past. A startup's biggest enemy is waste.
Project management fails us when priorities are unclear, work is described either too vaguely or overly detailed.
When following the process becomes more important than doing the work.
When everyone involved hates working this way, but they do it anyway.
NOW exists so that companies don't have to invent new ways of working together.
To help companies avoid all the unnecessary process and complexity, and focus on figuring out & delivering what's important.
Let's talk about what NOW does and doesn't do.
Feature Highlights
- Prioritization. Wishes are made, the entire team votes on what's important.
- Context. Start each day with a summary from yesterday, and what's important today.
- Source of Truth. Keep conversations in one place, decisions highlighted. Context always at the forefront.
- Talk over Ticket. Identify a task, do the task, communicate with your team. If a task is big, make it a focus.
We're currently building NOW with community support to make sure it's useful to the software development community.
Get notified when we’re launching.
We'll shoot you an email when NOW is ready for a test drive.