Organize a messy window

A busy day leaves a window full of chats: a fix here, a question about another repo there, a landing page on the side. This playbook turns that window into an org in about five minutes. CodeAF proposes teams from what the chats are about, you keep the ones that fit, each team gets a manager, and one global manager gives you a single status table across all of them.

Steps

Our window had 11 open chats: five about taskboard, three about wordstat and three about a landing page, all started from the same folder.

1. Press Alt+V for the wall. Its header reads 11 open and offers ✦ Organize 11.
2. Press G, then O. The Organize card proposes new teams with a check box each: taskboard 11 from the folder, wordstat 3 and landing page 3, each listing the chats it would take, and the price of the proposal, about $0.0001.
3. Chats started in one folder all count as that folder's, so the folder row would take every chat. Move to taskboard 11, press Space to untick it, and press Enter. The wall says Organized · 2 new teams, and the teams row shows ● wordstat 3 and ● landing page 3.
4. Make the last team by hand: pick the five taskboard tiles with the arrow keys and Space, press S, and press Enter to keep the proposed name, taskboard.
5. Press Alt+2. For each team, press Alt+↑, walk to it with ↑ and ↓, press Enter, then Shift+M, and send its new manager one message:

6. Last, choose All teams, press Shift+M, and ask the global manager for the view across the company:

What you see

Each team manager answers with its members by handle, such as @headline, @presence and @page, and one line on what each did. The global manager then writes one table with a row per team: landing page, wordstat and taskboard, their members, what they did and what is next. Back on the wall, press a team's number to see only that team, with its manager first.

Make the global manager last, after every team manager has answered once. It then counts the three managers as its members and can ask each one for status.

In our run

Five minutes and 35 seconds from the first chat to the org table, and $0.28 for the whole session, all eleven chats included.

Make it yours

• Change your mind. Right after Organize, the wall offers Undo, so you can try the proposal and step back if the split is wrong.
• Skip the global manager. For two small teams, one manager each is enough. Add the global manager when you want one table instead of several chats.
• Hand it the next goal. The org you now have is the same company as in Build a software company: send the global manager a goal and an order of work.

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