Continuous Coordination with Steady

About this guide

This guide provides managers & team leads with a proven system for building healthy, productive, high-performing teams using Steady and Continuous Coordination. With this guide and Steady, you have everything you need; a research-backed plan vetted by decades of real-world experience, and a purpose-built tool to implement it.

Chapters

1. Introduction An overview of the guide, who it’s for, and how to get the most out of it.
2. The problem Why coordination breaks down, and the compounding cost of leaving it unfixed.
3. The solution How Continuous Coordination and Steady solve the problem.
4. The big-picture loop How to use Goal Stories to drive and maintain high-level alignment.
5. The ground-level loop How to use Smart Check-ins to keep individual teams in tight sync.
6. Building trust and autonomy How to use Steady to build a culture of trust and effective autonomy.
7. Increasing coordination efficiency Advanced techniques for further reducing coordination debt.
8. Assessing coordination health How to assess your team’s coordination health, with or without Steady.
9. Quick start playbook A condensed, step-by-step guide for getting up and running with Steady.
10. Troubleshooting playbook Solutions to common problems teams encounter when adopting Steady.
11. Additional resources Useful links, glossary, and additional reading, collected for your convenience.