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by mcbrit 1001 days ago
Experienced technical project manager here, used to dealing with lots of teams across lots of organizations involving lots of money. Also an architect!

5-10 teams and 1-10m$ can be managed with a 15 minute daily meeting and an email that is sent immediately after the meeting.

You need less, but still need to organize your thoughts. Use a text file and work!

One simple hack is confine yourself to a single text file; the need to understand what is going on in the text file after a few weeks will make the text file correct meaning productive. (Or push you to a failure state. The general critique of literate programming is now you have to be good at two things.)