We assembled this Best Practices Guide so you and your team can get the most out of Status Hero. It's based on decades of combined software delivery experience plus lessons learned from the thousands of teams using Status Hero every day.

Use these tips to connect with your teammates and build trust so you can confidently focus and deliver, together.

Avoid listing small tasks in Status Hero. (Status Hero can pull in data from Jira, Asana, or Github issues anyway.)

Instead of tasks, think in terms of goals. Goals have the end product in mind. They define meaningful progress for your team and project. They also are the most effective way to communicate to others what you're working towards, increasing trust and delivery confidence.

Most knowledge workers should only have one or two concrete goals a day.

Live Goals weave context & vision into your team's daily routine. Live Goals collect updates from owners on a regular schedule that keeps everyone in the loop. Confidence and progress let you know at a glance where goals stand, and rich, longform updates create space for sharing deeper context, successes, and lessons learned. Learn the best practices for Live Goals.

You need to put some thought into your check-ins, but each update shouldn't take more than two minutes.

Communicate just enough information to keep your team apprised of your progress.

To help you complete your update quickly, Status Hero will show you your goals from your previous check-in.

"Blockers" are issues that 1) prevent you from moving forward and 2) require someone other than yourself to fix.

Only fill in blockers when you want someone else to intervene on your behalf.

When you @mention a teammate in a Status Hero update, they are immediately notified. So make sure you want their attention when you @mention them in your check-in.

Like @mentions, when you "react" or comment on a check-in, the author and anyone else who has commented will be notified.

Make sure the communication is meaningful. Reactions are quicker than comments.

Use #hashtags to apply a category or area of work to your check-in.

Later on, you and your team can search check-ins by #hashtag to drill down into relevant updates.

Supercharge your check-ins by connecting Status Hero to tools like Jira and Github for a full picture of what your team is working on. Use the Activity and Insights pages to view a live stream of activity and see trends over time.

If you've got a planned vacation coming up, block off the dates in your settings. That way you won't be nagged to check in.

Team administrators can set certain team members to receive reports, but not be asked to check in.

This is useful for people who support your team (e.g. operations or security groups) and for providing stakeholders with automated updates.

We recommend splitting up larger teams into ones of approx. 10 people or less. Otherwise, teammates get overloaded with everyone else's check-ins.

In Status Hero, people can belong to multiple teams, or check in into one team and act as an observer in another.