• May 18, 2025
How Uxertiv leverages Zappify to align on ways of working at scale
Uxertiv uses Zappify to codify rituals, automate status, and keep distributed squads rowing in the same direction — without more meetings.

Omar Velasquez
May 18, 2025
1. Replace Status Meetings with Asynchronous Rituals
- Weekly async check-ins: open automatically every Monday with three prompts.
- Roll-up views: squad updates auto-compile into a portfolio dashboard.
- Decision logs: approvals happen in-app and capture context, owner, and timestamp.
How to act
- Pilot with one squad for 2 sprints; retire two meetings to fund the experiment.
- Use lightweight prompts: “What moved? What’s blocked? What’s next?”
- Adopt a two-minute rule: skimmable updates win participation.
Tip: If it takes more than five minutes to write, it belongs in a doc — not a check-in.
2. Guardrails Over Gatekeepers
Templates set policy; automation enforces it so velocity and compliance can coexist.
- Approval matrices: route by amount, risk, or customer tier.
- SLAs by type: incidents get 1-hour reviews, experiments get 24 hours.
- Audit trail: every approval and exception lives next to the work.
approval:
spend <= 2k: SquadLead
2k < spend <= 25k: Director
> 25k: CFO
sla:
incident: 1h
feature: 24h