The Alignr blog
Lire en françaisPractical, no-fluff guides on sprints, retros, and analytics for small businesses — wherever your team works from.
A buyer's checklist for small businesses in India, Southeast Asia and East Asia: billing currency, recurring card payments, mobile use, data export and seat costs — before you commit a team to a tool.
A practical delivery workflow for small agencies, freelancers and studios in Asia working with clients in Europe, the US or Australia — turning the time difference into an overnight handoff instead of a delay.
How small teams spread across India, Southeast Asia and East Asia can replace the daily call with a written standup — including the half-hour offsets and the daylight-saving shifts that catch people out.
A step-by-step guide for small teams planning a first sprint: gather the work, pick what fits, assign owners, and set up a review — in about two hours, with no prior Scrum experience.
Every free plan has limits, and they decide whether it actually works for your team. A checklist for reading a free tier's fine print before you build your workflow on it.
How small distributed teams anywhere in Africa can replace the daily call with a written standup that respects time zones, power cuts and patchy connections.
Kanban and Scrum are often presented as rivals. For a small team the practical answer is usually a light mix of both — here's how to combine them without the ceremony.
How small creative, marketing and software agencies anywhere in Africa can track client work, deadlines and scope changes — including cross-border clients — without an expensive enterprise tool.
You don't need a meeting or a whiteboard. A simple async retro format for small teams that already coordinate on WhatsApp — and how to keep the outcome somewhere it won't get buried.
A plain kanban board shows what's happening now. A sprint board adds a start, an end and a way to learn from each cycle. Here's how to tell which one your small team needs.
How small teams in Africa can track work with boards and sprints on a free or low-cost plan — and what to check before you commit to paying per seat in dollars.
A practical buyer's guide for small businesses evaluating project management and ticket tracking software — what actually matters, what's enterprise bloat, and the questions to ask before you commit.
A practical guide to running weekly, bi-weekly, and monthly sprints for small businesses — how to track progress, run a useful retro, and read your own analytics without expensive enterprise tools.