Transparency in your dev team increases performance and saves money.
Keeping your team's work fully transparent for every member is crucial. This will help you stay away from a lot of inefficiencies in your team that »
Moving our bot from Stride to Slack Part II
Last year Atlassian announced the acquisition of all of the Stride and Hip-Chat intellectual property by Slack. A decision that definitely caught us, SoftwareDevTools, and other »
New release! Our Stand-bot for Jira goes Server
Today is a very exciting day for SoftwareDevTools. When we first released our Slack standup bot, it was amusing since it was a tool that would »
The importance of Agile Communities. A conversation with Reese Schmit
SoftwareDevTools publishes #AgileTalks. A series of video interviews with Agilistas worldwide. We discuss several topics that are of interest for Agile methodologies practitioners. On one of »
Migrating from Stride to Slack: How does Slack work?
By the time you read this, you’ll probably have already heard about how Slack has acquired all the intellectual property of Atlassian’s HipChat and »
Efficient Agile Retrospectives with improved follow up on action items.
SoftwareDevTools has some huge news for you! We have just released a new feature to create Jira tasks from your resulting Retrospectives action items in our »
Learning About Growth and Product Driven Teams - Saastr Europa
It has been a very busy week for the SoftwareDevTools team, some of our teammates are hacking away a Stride app in Portland as part of »
Integrating Stride and Jira at Atlassian's AppWeek 2018
At SoftwareDevTools, one of our favorite activities is attending events that are organized in the software development industry, so you can expect our excitement about being »
Scrum Poker app for Jira - helping agile teams with project estimates.
It's been close to two years since we launched our Scrum Poker estimates for Confluence. We heard back from our clients and users who evaluated the »
SoftwareDevTools in Deliver:Agile 2018
The SoftwareDevTools team is a proud sponsor for this year's Deliver:Agile conference! Deliver:Agile 2018 is the Agile Alliance's yearly technical conference, focusing on Agile »
The business value of an Agile Retrospective.
For a couple of years now, SoftwareDevTools has been helping remote teams adopt Agile, and we've worked with a lot of teams. We've built tools to »
Agile Retrospectives for Jira: How Communication Inspired Our Latest Project
Here at SoftwareDevTools we know what it’s like working with remote teams and the struggle it can be to have an efficient communication between team »
Post Mortems Vs. Agile Retrospectives
SoftwareDevTools has been working to improve Agile retrospectives for remote Agile teams using Atlassian tools. We've developed a Confluence tool for Agile Retrospectives, and since it »
How To Develop Quality Products
Working in software is hard. It’s a reality and you know it and I know it. In a field where everything seems to change and »
8 Tips for Daily Standup Meetings
Keeping aligned is really important to Agile teams and, according to the Scrum methodology, daily stand-up meetings are the tool of choice for that. When done »