My Manager Toolkit
I thought it’d be useful to share out some of the tools and resources that I use as part of my workflow as a manager. Below is a link to a number of Google docs, which if it sounds interesting to you I encourage you to copy for your own purposes. I’d also love to hear what tools you use in the responses!
Tracking Work
Last year I ended up building out a spreadsheet to help schedule various projects for my team, and it ended up also being super useful to track work throughout the year. It focuses on the week level, which is high-level enough that it’s more useful than looking at work tickets in JIRA and comes in handy for review time to look back on what folks actually did.
This has evolved a bit from it’s initial inception and most recently we’ve copied the schedule at the beginning of the quarter as fixed and then kept a separate running schedule of plan, so we can review at the end of the quarter to see how things panned out. You could also get more creative with the color coding, or add notes, or whatever the case may be, but this is a simple tool to start.
