This month's release gives you a more forward-looking, action-oriented view of your organization, a refreshed flow for your weekly meetings, and clearer, more complete team and initiative pages.
🧭 New Organization Overview: From Percentages to Priorities
The organization chart is getting a more forward-looking, action-oriented design, built to help you see where to act, not just how things have gone. What's changing:
Goal and Key Activity percentages are replaced by a new, more actionable view
A new Where to Focus panel is added, designed to surface the teams that need your attention rather than a full historical breakdown
Clicking on a team now opens a team overview first, before you go into the full team page
In this first release, Where to Focus flags teams that have fallen behind on their Strategic Stand-ups. This is the foundation for a series of upcoming capabilities. Over the coming releases, it will also surface teams that are inactive or without a plan in Howwe, so you know exactly where to step in as a leader.
The new team overview gives you, at a glance:
The team's current goal status
How many days it has been since the team's last Strategy Stand-up
The date of the team's next Strategy Stand-up
The team's members
From there, you can still go into the team itself for the full picture.
Why this matters:
You see what needs action, not just what has already happened
Leaders can spot teams that are inactive, without a plan, or falling behind, directly from the top of the organization
A cleaner, more strategic view that reflects how Howwe is increasingly organized: around initiatives, not percentage scores on every level of the company
🎯 Team Activities: A New Name and Several Improvements to Weekly Key Activities
We've made several improvements to Weekly Key Activities, and renamed them Team Activities to better reflect what they help your team do.
When you create a new Team Activity, you now go through a more complete setup:
Give it a name: what is the team working toward? (e.g. "Book customer meetings")
Set an end date for it (e.g. by December 31st)
Choose the unit you're measuring in (e.g. meetings)
Set the overall number to reach, either directly or by using weekly workload per person, where you state how much each team member should contribute per week and Howwe calculates the total for you
Assign one or more owners, and split it evenly across them or set individual amounts per person
Add a Definition of Done: a short, plain-language description of what counts as one unit, so everyone reporting means the same thing
Optionally link it to a company initiative or sub-initiative, and to a specific milestone
Once created, you can open a Team Activity at any time to see progress toward it and who its contributing members are.
Why this matters:
Team Activities connect day-to-day work directly to the initiatives and milestones they're meant to support
Clear ownership and a Definition of Done remove ambiguity when the team reports progress
The same weekly focus you're used to, now with clearer ownership, timeframes, and initiative links
📅 Flexible Deadlines: Set Any Day You Need
Key Activities can now have a deadline on any day you choose, instead of always following the same weekly cycle tied to your Strategy Stand-up (formerly Acceleration Meeting).
This gives you the flexibility to match a deadline to when the work is actually due.
Why this matters:
Deadlines can reflect how the work actually happens, on the day that makes sense for it
Activities that naturally run on a different cadence, whether mid-week, bi-weekly, or tied to an external date, can now be planned just as easily
🤝 Strategy Stand-up: A New Name and a Refreshed Meeting Flow
The Acceleration Meeting is now called the Strategy Stand-up. Along with the new name, the meeting itself has a refreshed flow from start to finish:
At the top of the meeting, you see the date of your next Strategy Stand-up, based on the weekly day and rhythm your team has set. If that date ever needs to change for any reason, you can reschedule it directly from the view, without leaving the page or handling it elsewhere
If your team has set up Team Activities, the meeting now includes a dedicated Team Activities step: a simple, visual way for the team, together or individually, to commit to what you'll work on before the next Strategy Stand-up, for example 2 customer meetings for the coming week
The Key Activities step has a refreshed, cleaner design, where you can add a note, add a report, or open an activity's details
Why this matters:
Far less friction when a meeting date needs to change
A clearer weekly rhythm: follow up on initiatives, milestones, and activities, then commit to your Team Activities for the week ahead
The first time you open the Strategy Stand-up after this update, you'll be asked to confirm when your team meets. Choose the weekday and time you normally hold the meeting. Don't worry about getting it exactly right, since it's easy to change later with a single click.
🖥️ Team Page: See Where You Stand Between Meetings
The team page now carries the Strategy Stand-up forward between meetings, so commitments never disappear from view once the meeting closes:
A slim bar at the top always shows the date of the team's next Strategy Stand-up, the last one held, and where you are in the period between them
If a Stand-up runs late, the bar changes tone to flag it clearly, with a shortcut to start the meeting or move it to another day
A card below shows how personal Key Activities and Team Activities are progressing since the last Stand-up, and what's still due before the next one
What the team did lists the latest updates and completions since the meeting, and What it led to shows which milestones the work has contributed to
Why this matters:
Commitments made at the Stand-up stay visible and trackable all the way to the next one
Everyone can see at a glance how the team is progressing, without waiting for the next meeting
🗂️ New Initiative Page: A Clearer, Full-Width View
The initiative page has a new design, built to give you a clearer, more complete picture of a single initiative:
The page now uses the full width of the screen, with an initiative switcher for quickly moving between initiatives
The header reads like the first page of a report: what the purpose and objectives are, what it's aiming for, and how it's going
Milestones, Key Activities, Sub-initiatives and Teams each have their own tab, so you can go straight to what you need
Strategic Pulse remains available from the page
Why this matters:
What needs your attention surfaces first: overdue milestones and what's due next appear right at the top of the page, instead of being buried in the full milestone list
Less scrolling and clicking to get to the information you need
As always, these updates are designed to support:
Greater clarity
Stronger focus
Better execution