The Friday 45-minute plan replaced three Slack threads.
A 28-seat SaaS team used to run Friday planning across three Slack threads (one per team), a shared Google doc, and the Monday standup. The planning sprawl ate 90 minutes per manager plus 20 minutes per rep. The team moved to the Strkr work calendar for Friday planning. Each rep spends 45 minutes blocking the next week on the calendar; the manager runs a 15-minute pass to balance load; the Monday standup runs in 10 minutes. The RevOps lead calculated roughly 6 hours a week per manager and 1 hour a week per rep returned to actual work. The planning sprawl collapsed to one surface because the surface showed every stream of work, not just one.