The Panic Status Board
You should have an internal dashboard, even if you're not absurdly artsy Mac developers who can afford a flatscreen monitor to showcase it to anybody in the office.  You can have v1.0 ground out in an hour or two -- take your MVC framework of choice, make a single page behind authentication, set that as your homepage or etc -- and it will pay dividends for the rest of your business' life.<p>It is absolutely absurd how much extra value-producing work you'll get done if tasks which routinely take you 10 minutes take 5 minutes and tasks which routinely take you 2 minutes just don't happen.<p>If you need some inspiration on what to put on it, I have an article on the topic somewhere...  Here we go.  <a href="http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/02/09/dashboard-design-for-metrics-savvy-software-companies/" rel="nofollow">http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/02/09/dashboard-design-for-met...</a>