Run agile sprints with your team

Create a Linear workspace and set up a Team for your product squad. Build your backlog by adding issues for every feature, bug, and chore you can think of. Set up a two-week sprint cycle, drag your highest-priority backlog items into the current sprint, and assign them to owners. Use Labels (Feature, Bug, Chore) and Priority levels to keep the backlog navigable. Share the team link with everyone so they can self-assign and update their own issues in real time.

In Linear, go to Settings > Integrations > GitHub and connect your organization. Once linked, any pull request that references a Linear issue ID in the PR title or description will automatically update the issue status from In Progress to In Review when a PR is opened, and to Done when the PR is merged. This removes the need for manual status updates and keeps your sprint board accurate without extra effort.

At the end of each sprint, record a 5 to 10 minute Loom walkthrough of everything that shipped. Screen share the live product and narrate what changed. Share the Loom link in your team Slack channel and tag stakeholders. For retrospectives, have each team member record a 2-minute async Loom answering three questions: what went well, what did not, and one thing to change next sprint. Collect links in a Notion doc and synthesize themes before the next sprint kickoff.