doingthegood.work
doingthegood.workFocused, local-first tools for teams
38 small tools that help teams ship, decide, and keep moving.
doingthegood.work is a collection of focused, local-first tools for rituals, meetings, planning, coordination, and engineering delivery work like release readiness, review triage, incident response, debugging, and scope shaping. Open one, use it in the room, and get back to the work instead of wrestling with setup.
State stays in the browser, so the tool opens fast and works well for teams whose process is still taking shape.
Each tool handles one concrete job well: start the meeting, break the tie, triage review load, track release readiness, or sort scope under deadline pressure.
These are designed for live use: during standup, inside planning, during a launch review, while debugging, or whenever the room needs a shared structure fast.
Every tool aims to be legible on first use, with a shared visual language and very little friction to get started.
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Standup Revolver
Pick the next speaker without the awkward pause.
A dramatic standup order selector that remembers today's progress in the browser.
Retro Roulette
Keep retros moving before the energy drops.
Spin up retro prompts, categories, and opening turns without overplanning the room.
Decision Splitter
When every option sounds equally reasonable, pick a path and keep going.
Break ties, weight options, and move a decision forward when the room stalls.
Meeting Timer Stack
A visible cadence for meetings that like to expand forever.
Run stacked timers for standups, demos, retros, 1:1s, and focused discussion rounds.
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A growing collection for teams and delivery work
Standup Revolver
Pick the next speaker without the awkward pause.
A dramatic standup order selector that remembers today's progress in the browser.
Retro Roulette
Keep retros moving before the energy drops.
Spin up retro prompts, categories, and opening turns without overplanning the room.
Decision Splitter
When every option sounds equally reasonable, pick a path and keep going.
Break ties, weight options, and move a decision forward when the room stalls.
Meeting Timer Stack
A visible cadence for meetings that like to expand forever.
Run stacked timers for standups, demos, retros, 1:1s, and focused discussion rounds.
Parking Lot
Save the tangent without sacrificing the meeting.
Capture off-topic threads during meetings and triage them later without losing them.
Check-in Circle
Open the room before you open the agenda.
Run fast one-word, mood, or energy check-ins before the real conversation starts.
1:1 Prompt Deck
Better questions when the conversation gets repetitive.
Rotate conversation prompts for manager, peer, founder, or reflection 1:1s.
Blocker Board
Name the blockers before they quietly become the sprint.
Track blockers with owner, severity, and status in a fast local-first board.
Handoff Tracker
See the waiting chain before it becomes a surprise.
Track who is waiting on whom so dependencies stop disappearing into chat.
Agenda Folder
Treat the agenda like a working folder, not an afterthought.
Build meeting agendas into active, later, and parking-lot buckets before the call starts.
Estimator
Estimate together without opening a whole agile platform.
Run local planning poker or t-shirt estimation with a reveal and outlier spotlight.
Praise Relay
Keep appreciation deliberate instead of accidental.
Run lightweight shoutout and appreciation rituals with anti-repeat behavior.
Risk Radar
Surface uncertainty while there's still time to act on it.
Capture risks, confidence, owner, and mitigation before a release or initiative moves ahead.
Dot Vote Board
Rank the room without opening a survey.
Run a fast dot-vote with named participants, per-person vote limits, and instant ranking in the browser.
Round Robin Queue
Give every voice a turn without facilitation overhead.
Build a speaking queue for workshops, reviews, and debriefs, then move through it without losing the room.
Decision Log Lite
Write down the call so the team stops relitigating it.
Capture decisions, owners, dates, and revisit triggers in a lightweight local log.
Action Register
Keep promises visible after the meeting ends.
Track commitments with owner, due date, and due-soon status in a fast local register.
Assumption Ledger
Name the assumptions before the plan quietly depends on them.
Capture key assumptions, confidence, owners, and validation triggers before they become hidden risk.
Question Register
Keep open questions moving instead of letting them dissolve in chat.
Track unresolved questions with owner, next step, and due date until the team gets an answer.
RACI Sketch
Name the decision roles before ownership gets fuzzy.
Assign driver, approver, contributors, and informed roles for a single decision or initiative.
Escalation Ladder
Define the path before the pressure hits.
Set escalation levels, triggers, owners, and next contacts before an issue becomes urgent.
Tradeoff Table
Compare the options without disappearing into a spreadsheet.
Evaluate a small set of options against a few criteria and surface the strongest fit quickly.
Working Agreement Builder
Turn team norms into something the room can actually edit.
Draft and revise team agreements during kickoffs, retros, or reset conversations.
Capacity Splitter
Rough-cut where the team's time is really going.
Split team capacity across BAU, project work, support, and interrupts without opening a planning sheet.
Stakeholder Pulse
Read confidence before the plan hits resistance.
Gather named stakeholder sentiment and confidence signals before or after a review.
Incident Roles Board
Assign the room before the incident assigns itself.
Set incident roles such as commander, comms, ops, and scribe in a simple shared board.
Premortem Board
Name what could fail while there's still time to change the plan.
Capture likely failure modes, impact, and mitigations before a launch or initiative starts.
Decision Deadline Board
Make pending decisions visible before they become schedule risk.
Track unresolved decisions, owners, due dates, and impact if the call is delayed.
Release Readiness Board
See what still blocks the ship.
Track release checks, owners, status, and overall go/no-go readiness before a launch or deployment.
PR Review Triage
Make review load visible before it stalls delivery.
Capture pull requests, owners, reviewers, urgency, and blocked review status in a fast local triage board.
Scope Cut List
Decide what leaves before the deadline decides for you.
Split work into must-ship, cuttable, and defer buckets so delivery tradeoffs stay visible under deadline pressure.
Incident Timeline Pad
Capture the sequence while the room is still under pressure.
Log incident events, timestamps, decisions, and open threads in order while the response is still unfolding.
Rollback Decision Board
Make rollback calls explicit under pressure.
Track rollback signals, impact, owner, and current recommendation so the room can make a visible call.
Dependency Release Map
See cross-team release dependencies before they surprise you.
Map launch-critical dependencies, owners, and readiness state across teams before a release window opens.
API Change Check
Pressure-test a breaking change before it escapes review.
Capture affected consumers, migration plan, communication needs, and timing for a proposed API change.
Tech Debt Triage
Separate annoying from actually dangerous.
Rank technical debt by impact, frequency, owner, and fix timing so the team can decide what deserves action now.
On-Call Handoff
End the shift with less ambiguity.
Track active issues, watch items, next checks, and escalation notes so the next on-call starts with context.
Debugging Session Board
Keep the investigation coherent.
Capture hypotheses, evidence, dead ends, next tests, and the current investigation lead during a live debugging session.