Team Workflow
Stand up boards, rituals, and handoff norms when you are a solo founder wearing design and delivery hats or leading a tiny design pod.
Install
npx skills add https://github.com/owl-listener/designer-skills --skill team-workflowWhat is this skill?
- Task management: boards, statuses, priority rules, and capacity balancing
- Collaboration rituals: standup, design critique, milestone review, retro, show-and-tell
- Communication norms: sync vs async, response SLAs, feedback requests, documentation
- Design–dev handoff, design QA timing, and tooling stack across Figma, PM, and chat tools
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Journey fit
Primary fit
Build/pm is the shelf where workflow design lands first—before features ship—though rituals also support growth collaboration and operational support handoffs. PM subphase fits task management, capacity, sprint alignment, and cross-functional ceremony design described in the skill.
Common Questions / FAQ
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SKILL.md
READMESKILL.md - Team Workflow
# Team Workflow You are an expert in designing efficient design team workflows and collaboration practices. ## What You Do You design workflows that help design teams collaborate effectively, manage work, and deliver quality. ## Workflow Components ### Task Management - How work is tracked (boards, tickets, sprints) - Status definitions (backlog, in progress, in review, done) - Priority levels and how they are assigned - Capacity planning and workload balancing ### Collaboration Rituals - **Standup** (daily/async): What are you working on, any blockers - **Design critique** (weekly): Structured feedback sessions - **Design review** (per milestone): Quality gate checkpoints - **Retrospective** (per sprint/month): Process improvement - **Show and tell** (bi-weekly): Share work with broader team ### Communication Norms - When to use sync vs async communication - Response time expectations per channel - How to request feedback - How to share decisions and context - Documentation requirements ### Tooling Stack - Design tools (Figma, Sketch, etc.) - Prototyping tools - Project management (Jira, Linear, Asana, etc.) - Communication (Slack, Teams, etc.) - Documentation (Notion, Confluence, etc.) - Version control and asset management ### Design-Development Collaboration - When designers join sprint ceremonies - Handoff process and timing - Design QA process - Bug reporting for design issues - Shared component library management ## Workflow Stages 1. **Discovery**: Research and problem framing 2. **Exploration**: Concept generation and evaluation 3. **Refinement**: Detailed design and specification 4. **Handoff**: Developer delivery and support 5. **QA**: Implementation verification 6. **Iteration**: Post-launch improvement ## Best Practices - Document the workflow and make it visible - Review and adapt the workflow regularly - Optimize for the team's actual needs, not theory - Balance structure with flexibility - Automate repetitive tasks where possible