I’ve organised all images by chapter. You’re free to use them in your presentations and documents as long as you mention “The Async-First Playbook” in your credits.

To help you revisit the contents of the book, I’ve listed all the chapter summaries in an easy to access format here.

Resources to improve how you write at work.

• Tips for better writing by GitLab

• Technical writing courses by Google

• Technical writing fundamentals by GitLab

• Smart Brevity by VandeHei, Allen, Schwartz

• “How to Write in Plain English” by the Plain English Campaign

• The async-worker’s guide to writing

Example of a retrospective survey form

Retrospective templates

Checklists

• Definition of ready checklist

• Definition of done checklist

Example user stories (online grocery store)

• Adding a delivery address

• Pay using a credit card

Some examples

• Meeting minutes

• Business decision record

• Architectural decision record (example 1, example 2, example 3)

• Commit messages

• Pull request

Examples:

1. Idea paper

2. Feature breakdown document

3. Technical design document

Examples:

• Ways of working document

• README file

Example onboarding checklist.

Mural template to run the team values discovery

Here are all the tools you need to follow the instructions in the book.

1. Mural template

2. Live survey

3. Survey questions

4. Score calculator

If you don’t have access to Mural, you can recreate the whiteboard by referring to PDF versions of the panels.

Update: This site has a dedicated page for the starter kit, with inline, video tutorials. Check it out.

Async-first collaboration charter