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After the crazy SVB Bank storm of last week, we took time to evaluate and streamline some finance processes.
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Parabol's CEO reflects on nearly losing most of Parabol’s assets in the SVB bank crisis and shares internal video of how the news was broken to the company
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This week we upgraded our infrastructure, made progress on a new activity picker, published a project retrospectives guide, and much more!
This week the growth team reflected on our second retreat, and how we created an environment where teammates can be themselves
These 4 factors will drive a new era for productivity SaaS apps. Plus the latest Parabol platform metrics and changes inside our org
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Learn how a recruiter's vow to always provide feedback to candidates backfired, and the surprising solution that resulted in a significant increase in the number of candidates seeking feedback.
We are constantly seeking to elevate our work feedback practice. Here are a few ways we support quality feedback for design work.
We’ve evolved the way we work together in squads to tackle some of Parabol’s most ambitious and exciting goals.
Our new feature uses GPT-3 to summarise meetings and discussion topics, so teams can easily digest content and understand context.
Parabol sent personalized year-end emails to individual users and received positive feedback 🎉
At Parabol we are experimenting with changing our current Company AMAs by utilitizing remote-first, async ways of working
This Parabol usage data reveals how workers from all over the world take a break for the holidays, nearly all at the same time
This week we changed how we socialize as a team via our Fika practice. For 6+ years, we’ve held a weekly social call. Here's how it changed.
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This week we proposed governance for a new Wellness Days Policy.
Parabol shares our async process for gathering peer feedback on performance using activity templates in our software
Parabol celebrates their monthly social hour, a team building event. We play Gartic Phone and have a lot of fun together.
Last week, as Twitter was officially turned over to new ownership, a tension rose up in a teammate.
Parabol’s icebox is where we put backlog items when we commit not to doing them soon. Here’s what we’ve learned by analyzing what’s ended up there
Clues to where we might expand are in how we’re using our software beyond agile. Here are some activities we run at Parabol using the Retro activity type.
Embracing timezones, leaning into async, and keeping your calendar clean, helps you navigate the challenges of working across different timezones
Even as a remote-async-first team, we have some protocols to make sure we work more comfortably and better together.
We re-organize every 4-months around the biggest needs of the business. We took a look at the roles & practices to improve this process.
What accountabilities should leadership team members have to one another? The Parabol Exco team gathered in San Diego to figure this out
This week we set up new squads for a new trimester. Each squad kicked off its first sprint to explore its problem space.
