Spreadsheet Confession
Your First Internal Tool: A Weekend-Sized Starter Project
How to pick a small, painful, contained process and turn it into your first internal tool quickly, without betting the business on it.
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Guides on how to better manage business processes
Handoffs Are Where Processes Break: Designing Clean Transfers Between Teams
Why work stalls between teams, and how to design handoffs with clear criteria, the right information attached, and an owner at every moment.
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Escaping the Hiring Tracker Spreadsheet: Building a Lightweight Recruiting Pipeline
Turn a shared hiring spreadsheet into a lightweight recruiting pipeline with clear stages, structured feedback and careful handling of candidate data.
Read articleBackups, Exports and Exit Plans: Protecting Your Data in Someone Else's Cloud
Price rises, acquisitions and shutdowns happen. How to keep regular exports, write an exit plan, and test that you could actually leave.
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Who Owns This Sheet? Mapping the Shadow Processes in Your Company
Before you migrate anything, inventory the spreadsheets your business actually runs on: who maintains them, who reads them, and what breaks without them.
Read articleProcess First, Tool Second: Documenting a Workflow Before You Build It
Buying a tool before you understand the process just rebuilds the mess. A lightweight template for documenting triggers, steps, owners and handoffs.
Read articleProject Intake: Turning "Can You Just..." Requests Into a Managed Queue
Replace hallway favours with a single front door for requests, clear triage rules and a visible priority list everyone can see.
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Self-Hosting Your Internal Tools: When It Makes Sense and What It Really Costs
Running open-source internal tools on your own servers can make sense. Here's what it really costs in backups, upgrades, sign-on and on-call duty.
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Budgeting for Internal Tools: Licences, Build Time and the Costs After Launch
Build a realistic year-one and year-two budget for an internal tool: licences, build hours, migration, training, maintenance and change requests.
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