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Internal team SLAs turn "ASAP" into measurable handoffs

Dev waits on finance. HR waits on IT. Ops waits on deploy. Without internal team SLAs, everything is urgent — nothing prioritized. Track response, queue age, escalation in WKFGo with tasks and list_desk_tickets.

Internal customers deserve the same clarity as external ones.

Symptoms of no internal SLA

"Ping me tomorrow" — infinite defer.
Loud voice beats client SLA work.
flow_aging in handoff columns ignored until outage.
Cross-team blame without timestamps.
Desk tickets duplicate Slack — no owner clock.

Six-step internal SLA framework

Step 1 — Map critical handoffs

Dev→QA, PM→Finance, IT→onboarding, Legal→contract.

Step 2 — Define clock start/stop

Task or desk ticket logged → first response → resolved.

Step 3 — Targets by priority

P1 four business hours; P2 one day — wiki document.

Step 4 — Visualize queue age on columns

flow_aging thresholds — weekly triage.

Step 5 — Escalate breaches to decision_inbox

Repeated miss = capacity fix.

Step 6 — Monthly SLA hit rate review

get_project_report — adjust targets or staffing.

Sample SLA table

Anti-patterns

SLA on paper; work in DMs only.
Same target for one-line ask and migration project.
Punish team without fixing approver gap.

How WKFGo helps

list_desk_tickets, reply_desk_ticket, list_pending_approvals, flow_aging, decision_inbox, workload_heatmap, BPMN multi-step internal flows, log_activity timestamps.

FAQ

SLA vs OLA?
Start simple — one internal SLA document.

Remote/async clocks?
Business hours agreement; Jalali for FA teams.

Client SLA separate?
Tag client tasks — internal SLA prevents internal delay breaking external.

Automated breach notify?
Monitor + Executive Digest for repeated handoff aging.

Checklist before you close this topic

One pilot project selected and named owner assigned
Relevant WKFGo view or MCP tool run once with real data (not demo-only for decisions)
One anti-pattern explicitly banned this sprint (written in team wiki)
Follow-up calendar invite for calibration or metric review
Soft links shared: /features for capability overview, /api-docs for automation, /blog for adjacent playbooks

Measure internal promises

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