See the slip
before it happens.
Most slips are announced well before the date, in a sentence about a late vendor or a stalled review. Agents in the channel read it when it is written, find the work that waits on it and tell its owner the same day. Every project also keeps its history as it goes, so the next estimate comes from how this team actually delivers.
The cost
What the work costs
before Together
Estimates made in a planning meeting from memory and optimism.
A blocker mentioned in passing on Tuesday, found a week later by the person who has to explain the slip.
Dates promised to customers that nobody on the team believed.
With Together
What changes
Blockers heard when they are said
An agent reads the channels it is in, so a blocker mentioned in passing is linked to the projects and dates it touches within the hour.
Forecasts from your history
A project's date is a range drawn from how long similar work took this team, and it narrows as the work moves.
Scope you can weigh
Add work to a project and see what it does to the date before you commit to it.
Updates written from the work
An agent drafts each project's weekly update from what changed, on track, at risk or off track, for its lead to confirm.
In practice
How it plays out
for a team like yours
Planning
Priya scopes usage-based billing. The forecast gives three to five weeks, drawn from the last four billing projects the team shipped.
Week two, Tuesday
Priya writes in #billing that the metering vendor's sandbox has been down since morning. Atlas reads it, marks the project at risk and links her message to the three issues waiting on the sandbox.
The same afternoon
Mara moves invoice previews to the next cycle, and Tomas gives the customers waiting on usage pricing a new date while it is still a plan, with the reason attached.
Built on
The parts of Together
it rests on
