The Async-First Quarterly Planning Playbook for Distributed Teams
The classic two-day planning offsite is broken when half your team is asleep. Here is a two-week, async-first cadence that produces better OKRs without 18 hours of Zoom. -
The best time to meet is 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM in Rome, which is 11:30 AM to 6:30 PM in Bengaluru. You won't be short on options — 7 hours of overlap leaves space for recurring syncs and ad-hoc calls alike. A quick caveat — Rome's clocks move for daylight saving and Bengaluru's don't, so the times here are right for only part of the year. To edit hours, add more timezones, and share with your team, create a free collaborative board.
| UTC (GMT+0) | 12am | 1am | 2am | 3am | 4am | 5am | 6am | 7am | 8am | 9am | 10am | 11am | 12pm | 1pm | 2pm | 3pm | 4pm | 5pm | 6pm | 7pm | 8pm | 9pm | 10pm | 11pm | |
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| Rome Europe/Rome | 2am | 3am | 4am | 5am | 6am | 7am | 8am | 9am | 10am | 11am | 12pm | 1pm | 2pm | 3pm | 4pm | 5pm | 6pm | 7pm | 8pm | 9pm | 10pm | 11pm | Next Day 12am | 1am | |
| Bengaluru Asia/Kolkata | 5:30am | 6:30am | 7:30am | 8:30am | 9:30am | 10:30am | 11:30am | 12:30pm | 1:30pm | 2:30pm | 3:30pm | 4:30pm | 5:30pm | 6:30pm | 7:30pm | 8:30pm | 9:30pm | 10:30pm | 11:30pm | Next Day 12:30am | 1:30am | 2:30am | 3:30am | 4:30am |
The classic two-day planning offsite is broken when half your team is asleep. Here is a two-week, async-first cadence that produces better OKRs without 18 hours of Zoom. -
Why timezoners.com has no login, how Supabase realtime keeps a shared board in sync, and the timezone math behind the overlap grid. -
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