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Run like a company: kanban + ship it live

Part 1: the kanban board (lanes, one name per card, the 3-line sync). Part 2: a free Vercel account and your app live at a real URL.

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9:15
start
50m
duration
2
exercises
3
things you leave with
Welcome

Yesterday you became a company. Today you learn the thing that kills more student teams than bad code: four people crowded around one laptop, three of them watching. You will split your product into lanes, put every task on a board with exactly one name on it, and learn the 3-line sync that keeps a team moving without a manager.

You walk out with
✓A kanban board with one name per card
✓A live URL per team, phone-tested
✓The redeploy habit: every block ends with a redeploy
Why this session exists

A coding agent makes building cheap. The bottlenecks now are coordination (who does what) and visibility (can anyone actually see it?). The kanban board fixes the first; a real URL fixes the second.

The arc, minute by minute
9:15
Why teams stall: one driver, three watchers
9:20
Lanes + the kanban board: to do / doing / done, one name per card, cards from your build order
9:28
The 3-line sync, then board up your real work, live
9:40
Part 2: why a URL beats a screenshot
9:45
Team Vercel account (free, team email) + drag-and-drop deploy
9:55
Deploy now: your URL on the class board + the phone test
Exercises
01
Board it, now
Write today's tasks on stickies: one task, one name, one done-by time. Board goes on your table wall, visible all day.
02
The 3-line sync
Practice one round standing at the table: did, doing, stuck. If it takes more than 60 seconds per person, it is a meeting, not a sync.
prompt · give this to the room verbatim
Here is our product and our team: [names and roles]. Today we have these blocks of work time: [times]. Split the next features, the design pass, and interview prep into tasks, one owner each, so nobody is ever waiting on someone else. Flag the riskiest task.
Tools in play
Paper + stickiesClaude or ChatGPT
Materials to prep
Sticky notesMarker per team
The checkpoint · nothing counts unless it is live
By 10:30 every board has one name per card and every URL is on the class board, loading on a phone.
The handoff · what the next session assumes
Leave withA kanban board the whole team can see + your app live at a real URL
DecidedLanes owned: build, design, users; every block ends with a redeploy
Bring nextThe 10:05 build block runs off the board; at 11:30 we wireframe the whole product
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