John's Guide to Coda

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John's Guide to Coda

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When to use Coda

Project Hub

Create team trackers and project hubs for your projects big and small

Scope creep. Stale data. Tool sprawl. It doesn't matter how good a project manager you are, processes are unpredictable and messy. Luckily, a Coda doc is built to flex and evolve with the ever-changing needs of your team.

When Uber needed to redesign their driver app, they turned to Coda to build a

project tracker⁠

that brought together Product Managers, Engineers, Designers, and Execs into a single doc to track project milestones. Before Coda, Intercom tracked their product roadmap and goals in disconnected documents and spreadsheets that didn’t talk to each other. Check out their

R&D Hub⁠

to see how they keep teams on track.

Project templates you can start with:

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Project Brief Quickstart⁠

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Project Manager Starter Kit⁠

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Automating Project Management⁠

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Building blocks for a great project tracker

1) Start with a Project Brief

Typically, projects start in a Google Doc and then move to a project management tool like Asana or Trello to manage the day-to-day tasks. Instead of bouncing between tools, start and finish your project in one place with Coda. Check out our

Project Brief template⁠

or navigate to our

in-doc templates⁠

(Click on the plus

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in the top navigation bar > show templates> search "Project") and use our Project Overview outline to help you kick-start this process. Or simple add in-line from where you'd write 👇

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2) Create tables to track key milestones and tasks

It can be tough to track all the moving parts for a given project and ensure work is moving forward in a coordinated way. Coda can help you stay organized and keep stakeholders in the know so no balls are dropped.

Sample task-tracking table:

Task

Status

Assignee

Decide project plan

Done

Build the product

In Progress

Write help article

Not Started

There are no rows in this table

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3) Visualize tasks in a Kanban Board or Gantt Chart

Charts allow you create visualizations of the data you're tracking in your

tables⁠

and

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4) Automate project management with Slack

Use Coda's Slack Pack and automations to automatically send Slack messages a channel or person of your choice when a project task is updated. Now your entire team can stay up to date on how the project is progressing the moment when a status is updated. Here is a guide to

Automate Project Management⁠

with Coda.

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