Axgenta
Writing

Arguments, not announcements

We build a product with strong opinions about how work should be tracked, and the reasoning behind those opinions is more useful than the feature list. These are the arguments — including the parts where the trade-off is real.

Management6 min

Stop chasing people for updates

The status ping is the most expensive habit in management, and the reason it persists has nothing to do with discipline.

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OKRs7 min

Why every task was green and the objective still missed

The most useful number your company can produce is the gap between work delivered and outcomes achieved. Almost no tool can produce it.

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Accountability6 min

The problem with letting people mark their own work done

Every task tool ships a checkbox that one person can tick alone. That checkbox is why you still hold status meetings.

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More on the way — on why your overdue list belongs at the bottom of the screen, on treating missing data as undefined rather than zero, and on why handover documents were always going to be 40% complete.