Hashbrown

What's the problem?

As a team that wants to consistently deliver on ambitious goals, you likely spend a bunch of time answering the following questions:

• Do we have enough capacity to achieve our goals?
• How can we sequence the goals to minimise risk?
• Have we got the right people working on the right goals at the right time?

You can do this in your head for some projects, sometimes. But you can't keep it up forever.

What is Hashbrown?

Hashbrown is an app that helps you visualise the answers to those questions by bringing the important information like goal effort, team capacity and allocation together in one place.

How does it work?

It's pretty simple. You get a board representing each teammate's available capacity for your chosen time period. And alongside this you get a list of the team's goals with their required effort. Then you iteratively allocate goals across the team board accounting for who can do what and when. Hashbrown acts like a visual sounding board, enabling you to game out different options until you reach the best plan.

Shouldn't I just use Google Sheets, or MS Excel?

You can. In fact, we tried it ourselves! However pretty soon we realised that it's a huge time-consumer. You have to start by setting up formulas to calculate allocated efforts, available capacity, summary of goal estimates etc. The experience of visualising different allocation options is extremely clunky and slow. On top of that, each time you start a new project or work with a new team, you need to do it all over again.

All of these minutes slowly add up. These are hours you would rather invest in making decisions, instead of spending on the tool setup. Hashbrown enables you to plug-and-play & hit the ground running. Everything we build, from super-light pages to keyboard shortcuts is to make sure you spend less time in the tool and more on your actual work!