- README
- GitHub: Repo, Issues
- How to read the TEA line
- T (Target): The primary audience for this tool
- E (Effect): The effect the target audience will gain
- A (Action): The approach this tool takes: the mindset and way of working that will be installed in the target audience
Communication
> Asynchronous communication
- Relay-style communication: JA EN
- T: Managers and drivers who are struggling with members who don’t follow requests
- E: Follow-up work for those who don’t comply becomes “one person at a time,” reducing follow-up cost
- A: Have people take turns one by one, like passing a baton
> Conversations and meetings
- MAMA (Meeting As An AMA): JA EN
- T: Managers who want to draw out more input from members
- E: You can answer 20+ questions in a single 30-minute meeting
- A: Run a meeting dedicated to AMA
- RAMA (Realtime AMA): JA EN
- T: Managers who want to draw out more input from members
- E: Increase member participation to more than 2x the usual level, and improve the meeting experience by answering questions
- A: Add an AMA segment to the meeting agenda
- RMA (Request Me Anything): JA EN
- T: Managers who are in a position to receive requests such as approvals
- E: Minimize the overhead per request
- A: Optimize how you handle each typical request pattern (Five Category)
- Manager As A Function: JA EN
- T: Managers who feel they are the bottleneck, or members who believe their manager is the bottleneck
- E: Increase the manager’s task-processing efficiency by several times or more
- A: The manager treats themselves as a function, provides an interface, and has members use it
Documentation
> Positioning
- TEA line for writing a summary: JA EN
- T: Anyone writing business or technical documents/articles
- E: Reduce the reader’s time cost to judge value to 1/4
- A: Write a summary in three lines: Target, Effect, Action
- Proposal Triad: JA EN
- T: Anyone making proposals
- E: Cut the rate at which proposals get ignored in half
- A: Use it as a reference, since the recommended check items for proposal review or pre-execution are summarized in three lines
Agile Work
- Casual Agile: JA EN
- T: Managers and executives who are accustomed to planned, control-oriented ways of working and can’t move quickly
- E: Reduce labor cost for management and communication to 1/10
- A: Work in an exploratory way by selectively using “small tools” that incorporate the essence of Agile
- Personal Daily Workspace (PDW): JA EN
- T: Anyone whose work has become ad hoc, who can’t reflect, and feels stuck
- E: Instead of spending 30 minutes every day, you can record daily work and thinking and also be able to reflect
- A: Create a daily personal memo space and live out of it as your home
- Casual Innovation: JA EN
- T: Managers, executives, and chiefs who want to drive innovation but don’t know how to leverage their people
- E: Increase the number of hypothesis tests for innovative ideas by 5x or more
- A: Clarify the requirements for individuals to focus alone, and have them secure that environment accordingly
Creative Thinking
- Divergent work using GitHub: JA EN
- T: Teams that want to do collaborative creative thinking using GitHub + plain text
- E: A team of six can asynchronously produce 100,000 characters’ worth of ideas and discussion on a single theme within a week
- A: Create a repository, and have each person write following
(Theme).md and (Theme)-(MemberName).md. Also do pushes and pulls
> Soft Skills Engineering
- Seven Lists principles for toolizing soft skills: JA EN
- T: People who want to advocate the importance of soft skills, or engineers/managers who want to become proficient at using them
- E: Reduce the thinking cost when building tools; you’ll be able to judge direction in one minute
- A: Choose what to build by selecting from seven perspectives
- List Kit: JA EN
- T: Individuals who want to create and operate small lists, or members/managers working with neurodivergent people
- E: Get a bird’s-eye view of considerations when building a tool, reducing creation time by 50%
- A: Since the perspectives you should consider when building tools are all there, review them and pick what you need
- Simplate Principle: JA EN
- T: People who create and distribute templates, especially those in a position to apply them to a team
- E: Reduce template creation, sharing, and usage costs to 1/3 of the conventional level (cost here means time)
- A: Fit the template onto a single page, and make it easy to read by adding categories and whitespace
- SESSEI (Subjective Effect of Soft Skills Engineering Index): JA EN
- T: People engaged in “hard-to-measure work” such as developing, driving, and evangelizing soft skills
- E: Make it measurable, enabling you to persuade people who won’t move without metrics
- A: Have people answer a questionnaire of seven simple, easy-to-answer questions