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Q&A

Ask questions during a wave and get answers from leadership.

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Q&A is a per-wave channel for the team to ask questions and get answers from leadership. Each wave has its own Q&A board so questions stay scoped to the work in flight rather than getting buried in a generic firehose.

Who can do what

Action Who
Ask a question Anyone in the wave (members, leads, managers, admins)
Answer a question Admins and wave managers
Upvote a question Anyone in the wave
Edit a question The asker (until answered)
Delete their own unanswered question The asker

Questions must be at least 10 characters. There is no length cap, but concise questions get answered faster.

How it works

  1. Open a wave → Q&A tab.
  2. Type your question and submit. It appears in the Unanswered list immediately, attributed to you.
  3. Other people in the wave can upvote your question. Upvotes sort the unanswered list — the most-asked questions float to the top, so leadership can see what the team most wants addressed.
  4. An admin or wave manager opens the question and posts an answer. The question moves to the Answered list, ordered by answered_at (most recent first).
  5. Both the question and the answer are timestamped and attributed.

What it's good for

  • "What's our position on X?" — strategic clarifications during a wave
  • "Why did we pick this objective over Y?" — surfacing the why behind wave OKRs
  • "Are we still hiring for the role we were going to fill this wave?" — staffing or scope clarifications
  • "Can a team pivot if blocked?" — process questions
  • Anything where the answer is useful for the whole team to see, not just the asker

Q&A is intentionally not anonymous — questions are attributed by name. If you need anonymity (e.g. concerns about psychological safety), use Pulse Check (anonymous sentiment voting) or anonymous team health assessments instead.

Best practices

  • Ask in public, not 1:1. If a question is useful for one person, it's probably useful for the whole team.
  • Upvote rather than re-ask. If someone already asked your question, upvote it — that's how leadership knows which questions matter most.
  • Answer publicly. Once answered, the Q&A entry becomes a record everyone can refer back to. Slack DMs disappear; Q&A persists.
  • Keep answers concrete. "We'll discuss it" is rarely as useful as "Yes, we're doing X because Y."

Audit & retention

Every question creation and answer is recorded in audit_logs (actions wave_qa_question_created and wave_qa_question_answered). Q&A entries persist for the lifetime of the wave and remain visible in the wave's history afterward.