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This project management resource utilizes the (narratives, commitments, and tasks), a slightly more straightforward form of OKRs.
Imagine the phrase “Why, What, and How”. This is the essence of NCT.
I recommend you explore the I provided. It will help you internalize the vocabulary of this project management approach.
This Coda app was designed to easily navigate the relationships between narratives, commitments, and tasks. From the , you can select a narrative and drill into any associated commitments. This template supports multiple narratives, each with multiple commitments and each containing multiple tasks.
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For paid subscribers to my , I will provide free huddles from time to time in the .
Or, feel free to buy my a coffee so I can stay up late and write more code to buy more coffee.
From the commitments, you can drill into any of the tasks for that commitment and you can create observations, notes, and static sub-tasks in the task items. Coda does this well - assimilating vastly unstructured data in a structured and deeply relational experience.
If you encounter or experience issues with the template itself, you might want to add them as tasks to the . Think of this as a bug tracker of sorts. A place where you can make observations of ways to improve your NCT framework. Nothing about this template is cast in stone, but it’s certainly a framework for incremental improvement as much as it is ideal for agile project management.
Many will ask - what about task due dates? Yeah, knock yourselves out. You know what to do. I decided to avoid this element of project management to simplify the adoption of NCTs. Embellishing it with due dates, timelines, and task dependencies - that’s on you. Coda makes it possible for you to be the hero. Lean into it.
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NCT Adoption
This NCT Adoption narrative is intended to nudge our team into using a more refined approach to project tasks and eliminate the often debilitating lack of software development management processes rigidly controlled by top-down planning. We have a chance to move the productivity needle by introducing NCTs as a viable yet straightforward way to rally around a vision, commit to that vision, and execute tasks to make the vision a reality.
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This is a quick test narrative for playing around.
NCT Adoption
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Narrative
This NCT Adoption narrative is intended to nudge our team into using a more refined approach to project tasks and eliminate the often debilitating lack of software development management processes rigidly controlled by top-down planning. We have a chance to move the productivity needle by introducing NCTs as a viable yet straightforward way to rally around a vision, commit to that vision, and execute tasks to make the vision a reality.
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Improve the NCT Template
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Continuously improve the NCT framework by reporting bugs and new feature requests.
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