You can now add free text to a check-in question, meaning that your manager and future you can know why you picked the answer you did.

Also from now, your manager's manager (and their manager and their manager's manager) will be able to see your check-in results, so those planning the team can know what everyone's strengths are. Hooray!

Finally, you can now have control over whether your team uses check-ins by switching 'edge features' on and off. You can do that from your edit team page at any time.

All has been fairly quiet on the western front for the last week or so, as we've been heads down working on a couple of big pieces of functionality. We're really excited to get these out to you over the coming week or so, but the first step just rolled out.

1. Organisations

As we've chatted to some of our bigger teams we've realised that just having a team layer isn't enough. This first release of 'organisations' introduces a layer above team for billing, shared skills and frameworks and aggregated data for companies with multiple teams using Progression.

• Join up multiple teams under one organisation (shipped, let us know if you want this)
• Be billed across all teams, rather than one team at a time
• Allow for teams to have visibility of their own frameworks and peers, while sharing skills, definititons and frameworks with the rest of the company (coming very soon)
• People teams and org admins can see which teams are using and growing in one place (later)

2. Check-ins (gradual rollout)

So far Progression has been useful for designing and displaying the framework, but hasn't been able to help with measuring team members against it. That changes starting today.

The building blocks of what we're calling 'check-ins' is now live. You'll be able to answer a set of questions, based on the requirements of your position, which will give you a bunch of insights about how to grow, some goals to aim for and guide conversations with your manager. As you add to these skills over time you'll be able to see a graph of your personal development, measured over days and weeks, not bi-annual reviews.

This is the very first step for us, but we believe the possibilities are endless.

• Complete a check-in against your current position (shipped)
• View the check-ins of anyone for whom you're their manager* (shipped)
• View aggregate data across the team - where are the team strong and weak? (coming soon)
• Measure growth over time (coming soon)

If you want to enable check-ins for your team or try it out in a sandbox environment, just speak to us. We're rolling it out carefully as we learn what's working and where we need to improve.

*coming soon - entire chain of command can see check-ins, for larger organisations

There have also been several smaller improvements and bug-fixes, but as always if you spot issues or have feedback please let us know!

Jonny and Neil

Some small improvements and fixes out today. Positions are now much easier to modify: you can seamlessly add and remove skills without waiting for page reloads.

We've also improved the experience of adding users to positions whereever you see the "+" sign.

Finally there are several small tweaks and fixes around inviting team members and logging in with your Google account.

Sometimes you need to see your team on your framework to finish writing your content. Don't worry, we've got you.

You can now add everyone on your team to your framework, but hold off on the email invites until you're ready. Tweak away, and when the time is right just send those emails so everyone can create an account.

We've also improved the inviting process so your team can join without you needing to add them again, and created a team members page so you can see everyone in one place.

Team members that haven't been invited yet will have a stripey faded avatar wherever they're displayed, so it's easy to work out who's invited.

Hopefully this release will make the basics of getting the team onboard much easier. It also paves the way for more improvements around team management in the future!

A Sunday Special: two small updates going out today which should help with performance of the skills view of your framework.

• Firstly, we've added a layer of caching to improve page loading time.
• Secondly, we've made adding a skill level for a role an AJAX action rather than requiring a page load.

Combined, these should make for a much snappier and smoother experience of configuring your framework.

Big release: You can now change the order of your categories and disciplines

Good morning campers! Lots going on at the moment so this has taken longer to ship than we hoped, but you can now re-order your disciplines and categories within your framework.

Just hit 'Edit' in the top right hand corner of your 'Team' or 'Skills' page to drag and drop to the order you want. They'll update automatically wherever they're shown.

Other smaller improvements

• Notifications no longer block the menu
• Long skill and requirement descriptions are truncated on the skills page
• Positions are organised by discipline on the position page
• some other smaller bugfixes and speed improvements

As always, please let us know if you have any feedback or want to report a bug.

Not a huge change in the UI but lots going on under the hood in this release. We haven't solved the slow loading issues yet, but this is the first step on that journey.

Other small niceties

• When you create a team you can choose a template immediately. This seemed to make more sense to folks!
• On the skills view, you can now see which disciplines each position is in at the top
• The loader is now thick and Progression green.

TGIF right?

We've released a couple of new bits and bobs in the last couple of days that might be worth a look.

Feature: You can now send someone an email invite with a link in it to join Progression! (Warning, this doesn't add them to the team yet, so you'll then need to add them again.

*Improvement: * We're working on making the UI clearer and more glanceable. So we now have blobs to dictate what level a requirement is. Much easier to look across all your roles and see where people stand.

More next week...

Peace! x

What a lovely new week we're having. Sunny and full of positive vibes. What better time than now for some nice improvements to your Progression experience.

Going out today:

• You can now scroll around your skills grid with sticky headers and sidebar! Joy for those of us with large frameworks.

• A slight rejig of the navigation. The 'Team' page will disappear, and you'll be able to more easily add team members from the 'Positions' page (which we're now confusingly calling 'Team')
• You can now click on the items in the onboarding checklist to tick them off
• We've cleaned up some edit buttons and made it easier to add team members to positions from the homepage.
• Go into team edit and add your company hex code to change the colour of your team logo! (More personalisation stuff soon)

Fixes

• A bug if you dip out of onboarding early and then edit your team name
• A bug preventing you from removing a skill from a framework

As always, feedback welcome!

We're really excited to have the first few teams using Progression

Today we're fixing some bugs and rolling out a couple of new small features that have stumped you.

1. Delete disciplines from the 'positions' page
2. Add a second framework without crashing the app 😐
3. Tell us about bugs and feature requests from within the app!

We also (already) have to migrate to a bigger database, so at some point there will be a few minutes of downtime. We'll let you know when that will be and try to make it as unobtrusive as possible.

We're still learning how you want to build your progression frameworks, so don't be shy, let us know via slack or by emailing hello@progressionapp.com