Scaling Small

Managing OKRs in a crisis

How can you adjust your plan when the world economy hits the breaks overnight?

Building Better Brands: Empower Creativity

It's springtime in Portland right now,  so we have been busy propagating and repotting all our indoor plants; placing them in bigger pots as they start to outgrow their old ones. The pot gives the plant a suggested boundary of where you want it to grow, but how

Design

Building Better Brands: Brand as a Living Thing

We often think about brand as a still image. A logo, a typeface, a color scheme. The portfolio culture we live in makes it seem this way.  The hottest designers on your Instagram or Pinterest feed are the ones who make a lot of nice logos and posters, but not

Design

Building Better Brands

Over the past 8 years, I've worked as a brand designer for several different tech companies, on different levels of involvement. I've worked with teams like Color Genomics [https://www.color.com/?utm_source=Google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=9992496908&kw=color%

Design

Finding the right words

Today we worked on a new feature but the challenges were more about what to call it than the functionality.

Scaling Small

How to build a Pragmalith

There's a heated debate about microservices vs. monoliths and I'm here to introduce my answer:

remoteteams

Working and quarantining

Working from home is not new to me. I've been basically working from home for about 6 years now. This is, however, the first time I've been stuck at home for work and stuck at home after work. It's also the first time my

remoteteams

How we work as a fully remote team

We recently wrote about how remote habits are good for colocated teams too [https://blog.tability.io/remote-habits-are-good-for-colocated-teams/]. We're living in a really strange time and we feel extremely fortunate that adapting to our current environment has been quite seamless because it's the way we'

Scaling Small

5 low-hanging fruits to make your team more outcome-driven

Stop asking your team to be customer-driven. Instead you should be blending outcome-driven practices as part of your weekly rituals.

Features

Zooming in and out on your business

We shipped some significant changes to allow you to navigate your goals and projects at different altitudes.

Announcing changes to our pricing — switching to fixed packages instead of per-user pricing

We are changing our pricing on March 23rd, 2020 to help customers give their whole team access to Tability.

Features

The new Tability is here!

🎉 Tability gets a brand new user experience to make tracking progress on goals and OKRs easier.

Scaling Small

Remote habits are also good for colocated teams

Every company would benefit from working like a remote team, even if people are sitting next to each other.

Features

Tability gets personal — with private pages and lock permissions

We're introducing new page permissions to manage your personal goals and 1:1s — as well as locking your plans when they're ready.

Scaling Small

How to measure progress for long term outcomes

How can you stay confident about future outcomes if your project takes 6 months to ship? (A: use success proxies)

futureofwork

A team first approach

OKR tools optimize for leadership, and forgot about the rest of the organization needs. Managers love you, but users hate the tool. This needs to change. We are focused on making your team happy first.

start up

Why company values are important, even for a start up

Fundraising, interacting with investors, pitching your product are all parts of a startup that no one who's starting a startup wants to do. We're designers, developers, product people; we want to focus on making things. Regardless, it's important to talk to investors (whether you&

Scaling Small

5 simple ways to help your team keep track of progress

Are we working on the right things? Make sure that your work is having the right impact by keeping track of progress.

Scaling Small

Minimize the cost of being wrong

The best way to reduce the costs of mistakes is to catch them early.

Features

TV-mode for pages, new Jira integration

Keep your top priorities close to your team with the new TV mode. Link your Jira issues to your goals.

Design

A Brand New Tability - Update 01

In our first update in our redesign, we're talking about mobile friendliness and how we're planning on building our product from the foundation up, with it in mind.

Features

Announcing changes to our pricing plans

Our plans will be changing on December 1st, 2019. Read this post to learn more about the new plans and pricing.

Scaling Small

Objectives vs. Key Results vs. Projects

Stop getting projects and OKRs mixed up with a simple set of questions inspired by Simon Sinek's "Start with Why".

Design

Introducing: A Brand New Tability

Over the next few months, we're rolling out a new and improved Tability. We will be posting regular updates on the redesign here on our blog, so you can stay informed and add comments/feedback as we go. Stay tuned!

Features

Tability for mobile: stay on top of your priorities while on the go

Tability is now available for iOS and Android. Keep the pulse of your team in your pocket while you're travelling or on the go.