Blockers

How do Blockers work?

At a high level, the Blockers routine will collect blockers from your team on a weekly basis. This helps ensure your team isn't blocked by anything and is able to continue to make progress on a weekly basis.

Why it helps?

• Every single week or month (depending on how the routine is configured, you will receive a report with everyone's blockers. This is invaluable and will keep your team unblocked.

• While the weekly information is useful, having this aggregated on a weekly basis for team members is extremely helpful over longer time frames. Once a week, month or quarter you can ask Windy to summarize the key items that are slowing down your team..

• Sometimes team members are blocked for long periods of time and don't have a requisite forum to flag these issues. This will solve that!

Steps

1. Windy will collect input from team members on their current blockers and help identify issues that may be plaguing your teams

2. You can choose any team or group of people to collect blockers from

3. Blockers can run at any point in the week, you can specify the day and time you'd like to collect blockers from your team. As part of this step, make sure you set your deadline. Your blockers report will be generated automatically after the expiration date. For a routine like blockers, you likely want a quicker deadline so you can make sure the team is unblocked quickly

4. You have the option for either named or anonymous replies. Particularly for blockers, named likely makes more sense

5. Select your response visibility - if you want to share the blockers report with your team, make the replies visible to everyone enrolled in the routine

6. Once you've made it through these steps, you can name your routine and subscribe to alerts about responses