HANDBOOK
The Ultimate Coda Handbook for Engineering Teams
What I learned from 100s of engineering teams and why they choose Coda.

Oliver Heckmann
Templates to transform your engineering team

Engineering team hub
A one-stop shop for your Engineering team.
Jira dashboard
Track your most powerful Jira metrics within one doc.
Headcount budgeting
Combine headcount management, staffing, hiring, and onboarding with Coda’s Staffing OS.
Quarterly plus OKRs
Identify your company’s key challenges and select promising strategies to address them.Packs to push, pull, and document
Bring your toolstack into a Coda doc.
Team$10
Jira
By Coda
Two-way sync
Track projects and push updates with two-way sync.
Enterprise$30
Jira Data Center
By Coda
Two-way sync
Sync and update your Jira issues from Jira Data Center.

Team$10
GitHub
By Coda
Two-way sync
Track your latest pull requests, issues, and more in your doc.
Enterprise
Workday
By Coda
Workday meets workflow in Coda.
Free
Cryptography
By Coda
Provides cryptographic utility formulas.
Free
Smartsheet
By SimplaDocs
Two-way sync
View and edit your sheets from within Coda.
Docs in Engineering
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CopyableGokul's S.P.A.D.E. Toolkit
A technique for making difficult decisions—formed in my time as a Google and Facebook exec, and widely deployed at Square.Software Quality, Bugs, and SLAs
A guide on how to keep your engineering team on track by a former Director of Engineering and Product Management at Facebook.The best methods for leading a scrum sprint planning meeting
This template seeks to bring some of the familiar boards in concert with other layouts of data, all in service of efficiently managing biweekly sprints.Assignment Tracker
This doc contains everything you need to keep track of your homework and assignments!Jira + Project Brief
Bring your Jira issues and project requirements together, all within a single doc.1 on 1 Meetings + GitHub
Take notes for your 1 on 1 meetings and see relevant Github PR's, all in one doc.The 12 agile principles explained with examples
A guide to the 12 commonly accepted guidelines for successful agile software development.Girls4Tech - Design Jam & Hackathon Workbook
How American Airlines and Mastercard used Coda to run their hackathonHow to Run a Virtual Hackathon - Coda
Your team may be distributed, but that doesn't mean you can't bring everyone together.Pack Studio: Five lessons from building a platform with the garage door open
How we launched a platform for developers...and everyone elseSemrush Keyword Research Template
Use this template to find keywords your competitors are ranking on and prioritize opportunities by difficultyRedefining HR for the Post-Covid Future of Work
The "future of work" is now. The events of 2020 have propelled the field of HR forward and created an opportunity for a rethinking and resetting of how we design work practices that best serve all employees, our companies, and each other.Team retro with Linear
Pull your Linear issues into a table, then reflect on what went well and what didn’t.Jira Backlog (template for tutorial)
Experiment with this template to see how you can organize and analyze Jira issues that are synced from your Jira project.GitHub Cherry Pick From Branch
This GitHub cherry pick template lets you see the branches and pull requests in one table before merging.Diagrams and visualizations using Mermaid
The Mermaid Pack lets you create diagrams and visualizations using text. This doc demonstrates what is possible with different examples.
