Follow what we've been up to: new features, updates and announcements about your favorite standup bot.
Navigation in your meeting's history is now much better. You can now go back and forth on meeting instances, skipping dates with no meetings scheduled. You can also go straight to a specific date.
One of Slack's staple features is being able to mention someone to get their attention. However, StandupBot uses a modal window with plain-text fields to capture meeting responses. While this is great to ensure a more consistent workflow where people reply to all questions in a meeting, it also means that mentions aren't available. Well, that ends today.
You'll find a new field at the bottom of the meeting response form (both in Slack and on the web), where you can select one or more people to ping. They'll be @mentioned in the update that's posted to the channel (and notified, depending on their settings).
As our name implies, the app got started as an async standup meeting manager. That has meant focusing only on meetings that happen every week: either every weekday or on specific days of the week.
However, we also want to support non-weekly cadences and other types of meetings and check-ins that product development teams have.
That's why we've decided to add a much more powerful scheduling system to meetings. You can now set up meetings that happen every given number of weeks or months (anchored in relative days of the month).
Essentially, the sort of recurring scheduling combos you typically have in your calendar. Take a look:
This is just a first step and we'll keep working on our user experience to better support different types of meetings. Hope you like it and share your feedback!
Yet another top requested feature is here. You can now configure standups with just 1 or to up to 7 questions*. The rule of 3 is gone. Long live the rule of 1-7!
What's really useful about this feature is that it enables many other types of meetings beyond standups like regular team check-ins, ice breakers and status/mood updates.
*"Why 7?", you may be thinking. Well, because at 8 it felt more like a survey, so that's where we drew the line 🧑🎨. Seriously though, if you need more than that, we'd love to hear from you.
This month we worked on a bunch of under-the-hood improvements to make the app feel snappier. But the thing that you'll notice the most is the fresh new look for the interface.
The overall layout is essentially the same but we made a few small user experience enhancements throughout the app. We're excited to have made this refresh, because it's going to enable us to work much faster towards a ton of features we have planned. Can't wait to share them with you!
We're really excited about this one. You can now use StandupBot in your Slack Connect channels, letting you involve external teammates and stakeholders in your standups! 🎉
Everything works the same as with any other standup, but StandupBot is now able to join a Slack Connect channel and let people from outside your organization post and read standup updates.
A long requested feature is here. You can now add automatic reminders to your standups to make sure your teammates don't forget to participate.
In usual StandupBot fashion, it's super simple to use. You just toggle the reminders option for your standup, and the bot will send a reminder before the standup ends to anyone that hasn't yet posted their update. That's it. On or Off – no confusing settings to deal with.
