Scaling Small

Cascading OKRs is costly, and you should avoid it

Cascading OKRs gives you a comforting view of your business. It feels like everything is under control — but this sentiment comes with a high price tag.

Features

Announcing Tasks and Premium features

Keep track of the tasks and projects that will help you achieve your goals. Control access to your workspace with the Premium features.

Scaling Small

Preparing the next quarter — part 2: planning

Here's a simple approach to help you define success metrics and plan your roadmap while keeping things flexible.

Scaling Small

Preparing the next quarter — part 1: retros

See how you can take a step back and run a quick retro with your team before planning the quarter.

Scaling Small

How we use Tability to build... Tability

"Eat your own dog food!" — Using Tability is about much more than testing our own product. It's what keeps us focused and flexible.

Scaling Small

5 questions to build your own goal-setting framework

OKRs are great but a simpler language might be best for your team. See 5 questions that can help you build your own goal-setting framework.

Features

Subscribe to individual goals

Subscribe to individual goals to get notified of updates.

Scaling Small

Intercom part 2: How Intercom helps us scale customer success

We stopped using Intercom for announcements, but it's still the best way to scale customer success — the right tool for the right job.

Scaling Small

How we replaced (part of) Intercom with 100 lines of code

Designing solutions too early can be harmful. See how we let go of our initial approach to replace Intercom announcements with a bit of code.

Features

Jump to your goals and pages with quick search

Search for pages, goals and users.

Features

A simpler way to tell you what's new

We're making feature announcements less intrusive while keeping them easier to find.

Scaling Small

Execution beats strategy

Slow execution puts a huge pressure on a team to get their bets right. Competition that can move faster will catch up even if they had a false start.

Why we're not building yet another OKR tool

Sometimes, you have to anchor yourself on an existing conversation to tackle a deeper problem. That's exactly what's happening to us with OKRs.

Scaling Small

Why visionary leaders don't scale

Visionary leaders can be powerful drivers during early days, but they'll become bottlenecks unless they switch from giving answers to providing questions.

Scaling Small

Scaling Small — a Newsletter About Growing Lean

Throwing more people at a problem is not a sustainable solution. You need to look for better ways to work as well as finding the best people to help

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Link goals and OKRs to your Jira issues

I have a simple way to describe Tability's relationship to Jira: * Tability is where you track outcomes. * Jira is where you track outputs. There's a strong relationship between these 2 concepts. Outcome-driven teams want to see the connections between their goals, and how they're

product teams

It's not just what, it's also when

Sometimes we give our users all the right answers at all the wrong time. It took us a while to realize this, but we got there.

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Keep your roadmap public to move faster

Having a public roadmap has helped us to worry less about competition, and focus more on making our customers happy.

7 ways to see progress on your OKRs and goals in Tability

See how Tability can help team leads and contributors visualize progress on their goals and OKRs.

Design

Designing Tability – June Update

Introducing a few new features to make goal tracking more engaging and intuitive

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Customer interviews for startups

Interviews are one of the most powerful tools for startups. It'll help you save time and money, get free consulting, and turn people into advocates.

Design

We can't not judge a book (or a tech startup) by it's cover

Some reasons for investing in design early in your start up, and why it has worked for us.

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The art of not being busy

We all want to be busy all the time, but is being busy really equivalent to being productive?

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How to combine the Product Lifecycle and the AARRR funnel to map priorities

The Product Lifecycle and the AARRR funnel are great tools that can be combined to help you figure out how to launch products, and when to sunset them.

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Tips and guides to improve your goals next quarter

Get your goals and OKRs ready with our tips and tutorials for outcome-driven teams.