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It’s a 10,000-foot view of projects that answers the hard questions about where things really stand. Introducing the Hill Chart:

Every piece of work has two phases

• First there’s an uphill phase where you figure out your approach. You have a basic idea about the task, but you haven’t figured out what the solution is going to look like or how to solve all the unknowns
• Eventually you reach a point where there aren’t any more unsolved problems. That’s like standing at the top of the hill. You can see clearly all the way down the other side. Then the downhill phase is just about execution.

<aside> 💡 Note that the status is *human-*generated, not computer-generated. This reflects a real person’s feeling of the work at this moment. **

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And because the status is attached to lists instead of individual to-dos, we get a big-picture view of all the work.

Every time someone updates the Hill Chart, a new snapshot is saved to the project’s history. This gives managers a ton of context about what’s moving on the project and what isn’t without peppering the team with questions.