T14 Weekly delivery standup notes
Weekly delivery standup notes
A fifteen minute run through everything in motion at Brightline Collective this week, what each person is committing to, and what is stuck. Prepared by Leo Hart, Delivery Lead, from the live delivery tracker. This is a working note, not a client document.
Sample template: the firm, people, clients and figures are fictional, and the embedded view holds synthetic sample records.
Live example from the Dashboards app, shown with Bellwether Health's demo data.
My active delivery
Everyone opens this view before the call and checks that their own cards are current. It shows every deliverable that is Ready, In progress, Client review or Blocked, sorted by due date so the most urgent work sits at the top.
Read it this way: cards near the top with a due date already past today are late and get discussed first. A card sitting in Client review for more than one review round is worth a status check even if the date has not moved.
What each person is committing to this week
The rule is one clear commitment per person, said out loud, written down. "Working on it" is not a commitment; a specific action with a date is.
| Person | Deliverable | Client | This week's commitment | Due |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maya Chen | Q4 organic growth report | Acme | Get Dana Fox's decision on which comparison leads the executive summary | Sep 26 |
| Priya Nair | Landing page A/B variants | Acme | Chase the variant B versus control decision, second reminder if no reply by Wed | Sep 29 |
| Owen Brooks | Welcome email sequence | Pine Hollow | Close the three-email versus five-email decision with Grace Yu | Sep 24 |
| Sara Ortiz | October paid search launch | Harbor Lane | Confirm audience targeting with Maya, campaign live by Oct 1 | Oct 1 |
| Leo Hart | Backlink profile audit | Willow Row | Send a review reminder, this is round 1 sitting quiet for a week | Sep 30 |
| Nora Kim | Content audit findings | Redwood Advisory | Get sign off on the 40 thin articles marked for consolidation | Sep 28 |
| Dan Wells | Pricing page redesign | Beacon | Price the new plan comparison table as an add-on, this is the third review round | Sep 23 |
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Blockers that need a decision, not just a status update
Longest running blocker
The conversion tracking fix has been blocked for eleven days. Paid media bidding on Acme is running on incomplete data. Owner: Sara Ortiz. Escalation: if there is no developer response by Oct 1, Maya Chen emails Acme's marketing director directly instead of waiting on the usual contact.
Standup format
Parking lot
Items raised in standup that need more than two minutes get parked here for a separate conversation, not solved live.
- Should Content service line get its own midweek fifteen minute check in, given four active Content deliverables across three owners this week.
- Revisit whether Owen Brooks needs a second person covering CRM and automation while Webinar registration flow stays blocked. Raised twice, not yet actioned.
- Dan Wells asked whether repeated scope creep on Beacon's pricing page redesign (three review rounds) should trigger an automatic add-on quote going forward, rather than a case by case call.
How to use this template
Duplicate this page every Monday before standup. Fill the commitments table live during the call; if a person has no clear commitment yet, write Needs review rather than inventing one.
| Variable | Meaning | Required |
|---|---|---|
{{standup.date}} | Date of this standup | Required |
{{standup.facilitator}} | Person running the call | Required |
{{team.roster}} | Names and service lines of attendees | Required |
{{commitment.person}} | One named commitment per attendee, with a date | Required |
{{blocker.dependency}} | What is needed to clear each blocked card, and who owns it | Required when a card is Blocked |
{{parkinglot.items}} | Topics raised but not resolved in the call | Optional |
If a blocker has sat open for more than two standups with no new information, escalate it instead of repeating the same line.