CodeAFCreate a manager

Create a manager

Make any conversation a team's manager in two clicks, or start a fresh one, and talk to the team through it.

The chat that already knows the work is the best lead for it. Promote it, and it keeps everything it knows.
  • the chat you planned the feature in
  • the chat that found the bug
  • a fresh lead for a new team

A manager is a conversation whose job is the other conversations in its team. You tell it the outcome, and it messages the members, keeps track of what each is doing, and tells you where things stand. Any conversation can take the job, including one you have been talking to for an hour.

Try it in CodeAF

Where

In a team's conversation.

Click
  1. The team chip at the left of the tab strip, ● taskboard ▾.
  2. ◆ Make this taskboard's manager.
You see

The tab moves to the left edge as ◆ Manager, and the message box reads to ◆ manager.

Promote the chat that knows

Promoting keeps the whole conversation. The chat where you planned the work, or the one that found the bug, already holds the context a lead needs, so it can hand out work in the right words from its first turn. If the team already has a manager, the row says which one it replaces, for example (replaces read readme and describe taskboard). On the conversations view (Alt+V), press M on any tile for the same row. On the manager itself the row reads ◇ Make an ordinary member, which turns it back into a plain conversation with its history.

To start a new, empty manager instead, press + Manager on the tab strip, or choose the team on the teams page (Alt+2) and press Shift+M. Give it one instruction soon: it gets its @handle from its first turn, and a manager above it cannot reach it until then.

What changes

Enter gives the manager its first job; it checks the team, messages a member, and the answer wakes it to tell you. Keys: Check the team, then ask the member who listed the tests to count the test functions in tests/test_store.py and report the number to you. Tell me the answer when it arrives.Enter

The manager gains team verbs: it can read the team's status, send a member a note or an instruction, start new members, and stop one. Its side column opens on the team's Traffic, one line per message, such as ◆ → @purpose Count the… running. A member's answer wakes the manager, so it tells you the result without being asked again. With a member in front the box reads to @tasks instead, and Alt+M goes back to the manager.

Things to build

  • A lead that already knows: promote the chat where you planned the feature, and it hands out the plan in its own words from its first turn.
  • A change of lead: make another chat the manager when the work moves on; the old one turns back into an ordinary member with its history.
  • A manager per team, then one over all: a manager on each team, then one on All teams that asks each of them for a line and gives you one table. Organize a messy window

Go further

Organize a messy window: Eleven unrelated chats become three named teams with managers, and one manager reports on all of them.

Coming soon: describe the org you want and CodeAF builds it: teams, managers, budgets, standing orders.