Everything
Everything here, grouped by subject. Most people arrive with one question, so start wherever it is.
All 50 notes
Grouped by subject. Each section has its own colour, which is a hint rather than the label — the section name is always written out as well.
The basics
4 notesThree questions, and a spreadsheet that answers them. For a team under about fifteen this is the whole system, and building it teaches you what you would actually need from a product.
Holiday and leave
8 notesEntitlement arithmetic causes most small-business disputes, and almost all of them come from part-time patterns, public holidays or a rule that was never written down.
Sickness
6 notesWhat to write down and what to leave alone. The return-to-work conversation is the most effective practice here and it costs nothing.
Covering the work
7 notesThe operational problem all of this exists to solve. Most coverage failures were visible a fortnight out and nobody looked.
The legal side
8 notesLess than the anxiety suggests and more than most spreadsheets manage. Four things to do, and a short list of situations where an hour of advice is worth it.
Tools
6 notesSignals that a spreadsheet has stopped working, and the ones that look like signals and are not. Buying is a legitimate answer; so is not buying.
What not to do
8 notesPractices that arrive with good intentions and produce grievances. Each one substitutes a mechanism for a conversation that was available.
Reference
3 notesThe end state as a checklist, the questions these records cannot answer, and the terms people use to mean different things.