Blog
Product updates, new features, and articles from the PETALS team.
Conversational debt and the price two teams pay for silence
Gustavo Razzetti's idea of conversational debt names something most teams feel but never measure. Here's how it plays out in two very different engineering teams, and where psychological safety actually breaks the cycle.
Side quests, a Lighthouse glow-up, and a petal idea that didn't work
A quieter dev-time catch up this week, the marketing site's fresh Lighthouse and accessibility scores, an alternative PETALS visualisation that flopped, and a look at the side projects the team's been tinkering with.
Is AI a friend, a foe, or just a really enthusiastic junior?
Atlassian's research on AI and teamwork got us thinking about where AI actually belongs in a people-first framework like PETALS, and why the A was never going to stand for it.
What we learned about team size from Meta's AI pods
Meta's AI "pods" backfired, and the ideal team size landed close to the old agile rule of thumb. That same size band matters for psychological safety too, not just output.
You're not a coder anymore, you're a product engineer
Notes from a Thursday dev-time session with Sertan on the multi-agent shift, training AI to sound like you, and why the reaction in one engineering org was so mixed.
Why psychological safety makes feedback land
Your brain treats criticism like a threat before it treats it as information. Here's why psychological safety, not better wording, is what actually makes feedback stick.
Your team agreed on nothing, and that's the conflict
Gustavo Razzetti's Team Washing Instructions Canvas pairs neatly with a PETALS snapshot, one sets the agreement, the other checks if it's actually working.
What we're planning to grow this autumn
A new retro notes feature, team history charts, Slack integration, a security pass, and a few things that had nothing to do with the roadmap.
Password? Never heard of her.
Single sign-on with Google and Microsoft, magic link logins, a new marketing site, and PETALS Solo — a look at what shipped this month.
What's the real impact of burnout in your teams?
Dominika Rogala's four dimensions of burnout reframe why well-being interventions so often fail — and why the Serenity factor in PETALS matters.