Most modern software development methodologies have elements to address your point 1. For example Scrum has daily standups that specifically inform every attend

Most modern software development methodologies have elements to address your point 1. For example Scrum has daily standups that specifically inform every attendant about progress and blockers. Kanban mandates that you visualize your workflow with a board. Tracking the larger goals is often not well formalized, but I like this podcast episode about levels of planning in agile projects: http://deliveritcast.com/ep33-always-be-planning http://deliveritcast.com/ep33-always-be-planning. It's often included in frameworks for scaling scrum, like SAFE of scrum of scrums. 2. is a purely technical problem. If I remember correctly, stuff deployed to heroku corresponds to git branches, so it should be pretty easy to create some visualization about what's deployed right now from looking at git repos. I could be wrong here.