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Solve your team's productivity problem with StandupMail

14 points by nerdben 12y ago

baobabao 12y ago
spam
- nerdben 12y ago
  Proud I got your first HN comment! Wouldn't it solve a problem for you?
rule30 12y ago
Interesting concept. It's basically a PPP report, I was used to do it with my investors. PPP stands for Progress/Problems/Plan. Would like to try it with my team to see if it's effective.
- nerdben 12y ago
  Will let you know as soon as we spread public access!
pdx 12y ago
Looks like https://idonethis.com/ https://idonethis.com/ ... but competition is good.
- nerdben 12y ago
  hehe.. absolutetly
PeterWhittaker 12y ago
nerdben, as noted by pdx, this looks a lot like idonethis, which I recently tried and found useful but not super useful (though it did alert me to one issue when a team member used the daily reply to rant about something - that was worth the monthly subscription fee). At any rate, I thought you might appreciate some thoughts I had on that product and shared with them. Can we get nesting, bulleting, etc., within a person's report? I was thinking about the dirt simple * [space][text] gets you bullet, that sort of thing. Can reports be organized or grouped by sub-team? Org structure would have to allow for org-private permissions. As manager, I'd like the ability to add tags to someone else's posts. (Commenting on items to add the tag is one step too many - I'd like to be able to add tags to items entered by my team, or by others in the company. The OCDishly organized among us will worry about the tags, the ones doing this because they were asked to can be given a pass....) Eventually it would be nice to be able to sort of auto-generate a dashboard report using a template that would use tags to populate parts of the report. Just a thought. On the report side, I'm wondering about prompting users based on (loose) structure provided by a manager or team leader. I think I am thinking in terms of having being able to tag people with tags, and perhaps with time windows, so the system could ask a person "we haven't heard from you on #A in while, any updates?" Or something. I like the freeform nature of things, it allows people to capture everything, not just things they've been assigned, and I don't want to break that. But some way of being able to say "I need to hear about #A by yyyy/mm/dd" might be useful - though one could argue that's what a ticket system is for. I also recommend you look at the integrations idonethis already has.
- nerdben 12y ago
  PeterWhittaker, this is excellent feedback. Thank you so much for taking the time. I'll discuss all your points with my team. Could you give me a little deeper insight on why you did not find idonethis "super useful"? What's the things that were annoying?
  - PeterWhittaker 12y ago
    There were no particular annoyances, there was simply no compelling value. I could have hacked together a cron job and web site to send out a "what did you get done today" notification URL to a set of "enter your dones" pages, which would have been collated into a "digest" and I would have achieve the same value. It would have been fugly and lacked slickness, but the collated report would have been of comparable value. I was hoping for more in terms of rolling up reports, helping me create dashboard reports, etc. I know this isn't exactly an easy problem, but....
    - nerdben 12y ago
      Cool! Thanks for giving this further insights
swalsh 12y ago
The problem is the benefit of the stand-up meeting is that everyone is in the room together. A daily email misses the interaction aspect.
- nerdben 12y ago
  That's true... It's not supposed to replace the standup of strict SCRUM tbh. - but in many cases, there is no strict SCRUM just elements of it being used without high discipline. Also, the concept is thought of to help many different kind of teams, i.e. sales teams, marketing teams etc.

14 points by nerdben 12y ago

baobabao 12y ago

spam

nerdben 12y ago
Proud I got your first HN comment! Wouldn't it solve a problem for you?

rule30 12y ago

Interesting concept. It's basically a PPP report, I was used to do it with my investors. PPP stands for Progress/Problems/Plan. Would like to try it with my team to see if it's effective.

nerdben 12y ago
Will let you know as soon as we spread public access!

pdx 12y ago

Looks like https://idonethis.com/ https://idonethis.com/ ... but competition is good.

nerdben 12y ago
hehe.. absolutetly

PeterWhittaker 12y ago

nerdben, as noted by pdx, this looks a lot like idonethis, which I recently tried and found useful but not super useful (though it did alert me to one issue when a team member used the daily reply to rant about something - that was worth the monthly subscription fee). At any rate, I thought you might appreciate some thoughts I had on that product and shared with them. Can we get nesting, bulleting, etc., within a person's report? I was thinking about the dirt simple * [space][text] gets you bullet, that sort of thing. Can reports be organized or grouped by sub-team? Org structure would have to allow for org-private permissions. As manager, I'd like the ability to add tags to someone else's posts. (Commenting on items to add the tag is one step too many - I'd like to be able to add tags to items entered by my team, or by others in the company. The OCDishly organized among us will worry about the tags, the ones doing this because they were asked to can be given a pass....) Eventually it would be nice to be able to sort of auto-generate a dashboard report using a template that would use tags to populate parts of the report. Just a thought. On the report side, I'm wondering about prompting users based on (loose) structure provided by a manager or team leader. I think I am thinking in terms of having being able to tag people with tags, and perhaps with time windows, so the system could ask a person "we haven't heard from you on #A in while, any updates?" Or something. I like the freeform nature of things, it allows people to capture everything, not just things they've been assigned, and I don't want to break that. But some way of being able to say "I need to hear about #A by yyyy/mm/dd" might be useful - though one could argue that's what a ticket system is for. I also recommend you look at the integrations idonethis already has.

nerdben 12y ago
PeterWhittaker, this is excellent feedback. Thank you so much for taking the time. I'll discuss all your points with my team. Could you give me a little deeper insight on why you did not find idonethis "super useful"? What's the things that were annoying?
- PeterWhittaker 12y ago
  There were no particular annoyances, there was simply no compelling value. I could have hacked together a cron job and web site to send out a "what did you get done today" notification URL to a set of "enter your dones" pages, which would have been collated into a "digest" and I would have achieve the same value. It would have been fugly and lacked slickness, but the collated report would have been of comparable value. I was hoping for more in terms of rolling up reports, helping me create dashboard reports, etc. I know this isn't exactly an easy problem, but....
  - nerdben 12y ago
    Cool! Thanks for giving this further insights

swalsh 12y ago

The problem is the benefit of the stand-up meeting is that everyone is in the room together. A daily email misses the interaction aspect.

nerdben 12y ago
That's true... It's not supposed to replace the standup of strict SCRUM tbh. - but in many cases, there is no strict SCRUM just elements of it being used without high discipline. Also, the concept is thought of to help many different kind of teams, i.e. sales teams, marketing teams etc.