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Ground truth, in writing.
Short essays on the operating rhythm (status meetings, timesheets, blockers, fair scoring) written by the team building Efforti and running it on our own company.
Timesheets measure memory. Check-ins record work.
The Friday timesheet is fiction with a format. Here's what happens when the same fields become a three-minute daily conversation.
MetricsThe say/do ratio: the one number standups never gave you
Velocity measures motion. The say/do ratio measures trust: what a team commits to on Monday against what it ships by Friday.
OperationsBlockers age like milk. Retros treat them like wine.
A blocker surfaced at three hours old is a nudge. The same blocker at Friday's retro is a postmortem. Owner, age, attribution, or it didn't happen.
Product philosophyAI that scores people needs a human in the loop. Here's the actual spec.
"Human in the loop" is usually a slogan. In delivery scoring it has to be an interface: drafts, approvals, visible rubrics, and a right to reply.
LeadershipYour status meetings are a $375B habit. The three-minute alternative.
Managers spend 13 hours a week in meetings and rate 11% of them productive. The fix isn't a better meeting; it's asking the humans asynchronously.
Reading about it is slower than trying it.
Open a sample dashboard; the first briefing makes the argument better than we can.