Standuply

Standuply is a comprehensive project management assistant and digital scrum master designed to integrate seamlessly with Slack and Microsoft Teams. It automates a wide range of agile team processes, eliminating the need for time-consuming synchronous meetings and enabling teams, especially those that are distributed across different time zones, to stay aligned and productive. By automating routine communications like daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and various team surveys, Standuply helps maintain transparency, accountability, and a steady flow of information.

The platform is trusted by a diverse range of companies, from startups to large enterprises like Coursera and Slack itself, for its ability to enhance team collaboration. Its core philosophy is to facilitate asynchronous communication, allowing team members to provide updates at their convenience without disrupting their focus or workflow. Recently, Standuply has expanded its capabilities with Standuply Tentakel, an AI-powered knowledge management system that can search across company documents, wikis, and conversations to provide instant, accurate answers, effectively turning your communication platform into a centralized knowledge base.

How to use Standuply

Getting started with Standuply is straightforward. First, you add the Standuply app to your Slack or Microsoft Teams workspace. Once installed, you can configure your first report through its intuitive web interface. This involves:

1. Choosing a Report Type: Select from pre-built templates like Daily Stand-up, Retrospective, Planning Poker, 360-Degree Feedback, or create a custom report from scratch.
2. Customizing Questions: Tailor the questions to fit your team's specific needs. For a daily stand-up, this typically includes "What did you do yesterday?", "What will you do today?", and "Are there any blockers?"
3. Setting a Schedule: Define when the report should run. Standuply smartly handles different time zones, ensuring each team member receives the questions at their local morning time. You can also set deadlines for responses.
4. Selecting Participants: Choose the team members or entire channels that should participate in the report.
5. Receiving Reports: Standuply's bot privately messages each participant at the scheduled time. After collecting all responses, it compiles them into a single, easy-to-read report and posts it in the designated channel. Team members can then review updates, comment in threads, and address blockers.

For more advanced interactions, users can leverage slash commands like /voice or /video to record and share media messages, or /remind to set personal or team reminders.

Core Features of Standuply

• Automated Agile Processes: Automates daily stand-ups, retrospectives, backlog grooming, planning poker, and more.
• Asynchronous Communication: Enables teams across different time zones to collaborate effectively without the need for live meetings.
• Customizable Reports and Surveys: Highly flexible scheduling and question customization for any type of team check-in or survey.
• Extensive Integrations: Connects with popular tools like Jira, Trello, GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, and Google Analytics to pull data and create comprehensive reports.
• AI-Powered Knowledge Management: The Standuply Tentakel feature uses AI to search and retrieve information from your company's internal documents and communication history.
• Voice and Video Messages: Allows users to record and share rich media updates directly within Slack or Teams.
• Task Tracking and To-Do Lists: Create and manage tasks directly within your communication platform.
• Multi-Admin Access and Enterprise Support: Offers features like SSO, SIEM, dedicated support, and centralized management for large organizations.

Use Cases for Standuply

Agile Development Teams: Automate daily scrums to track progress and identify impediments. Use Planning Poker for sprint estimation and Retrospectives to improve team processes.

Remote and Distributed Teams: Keep global teams synchronized and connected by running asynchronous check-ins that respect individual time zones, eliminating scheduling conflicts.

Project Management: Managers can get a clear overview of team activities, project status, and potential risks without micromanaging or calling for constant update meetings.

HR and People Operations: Conduct 360-degree feedback surveys, employee mood checks, and onboarding check-ins to foster a positive and engaged team culture.

Enterprise Knowledge Sharing: Deploy Standuply Tentakel to create a self-service knowledge base where employees can quickly find answers to questions about processes, projects, or company policies.

Advantages of Standuply

Standuply offers significant advantages over traditional meetings and other tools. Its asynchronous nature is a major benefit, freeing up valuable time and allowing developers and other focused workers to avoid interruptions. The automation of reminders and report compilation ensures consistency and accountability. The platform's deep integration with tools like Jira and GitHub streamlines workflows by bringing task updates directly into the conversation. Finally, its flexibility allows it to be adapted for a wide variety of communication and reporting needs beyond just daily stand-ups, making it a versatile tool for any team.

Pricing and Plans

Standuply offers a freemium model with several tiers to suit different team sizes and needs. All plans come with a 30-day free trial and a 60-day money-back guarantee.

• STARTER: Free for up to 3 users. Includes unlimited To-Dos, customizable questions, video/voice messages, and holiday/vacation handling.
• TEAM: Starts at $1.5 per user/month. Includes all Starter features plus web report history, time zone support, advanced integrations (Jira, Trello, GitHub, etc.), and multi-admin access for 2 users on the flat fee model.
• BUSINESS: Starts at $3.5 per user/month. Includes all Team features plus task tracker-based surveys, backlog refinement, planning poker, 360-degree feedback surveys, and scheduled collaboration meetings.
• ENTERPRISE: Custom pricing. Designed for large companies, this plan includes centralized account management, custom multi-admin access, SSO, SIEM, a 99.99% uptime SLA, and dedicated premium support.

Special plans are also available for non-profit and educational organizations upon request.