Most project management tools allow you to define a workflow for your team and visualise that workflow as a task board. Your task board should be the source of truth for all the work your team is up to.

This play has examples of how you can bring the phrase “async-first” into everyday conversation, by making it a catchphrase.

Distributed projects are chaotic to run without artefacts. The DEEP acronym provides you a mnemonic to remember what to document.

Complex topics need time to understand and to engage with. WUCA outlines a team approach to deal with complex discussions.

Writing up your team’s ways of working wrt collaboration, the environments, tools and project metrics is a good start.

Project handbooks are a fast and effective way to align the team, share knowledge and onboard people.

A great place to document the static/stable stuff on the project is right in the codebase, in a good, old README file, at the top level of your project folder.

Build the reading muscle, start with anything that interests you. It’ll help you get more productive with your asynchronous work experience.

Writing is the number one async and remote superpower. How about you hone that craft?