Brand Thoughtful design in a fast paced startup environment I officially joined the team in November as a co-founder and design lead for both brand and product. My first task was to redesign our brand identity and come up with a new name.
ga Tability is now GA: announcing our pricing plans. Tability is growing up! We're now officially out of beta, and our pricing plans will be enabled next week on January 14th, 2019.
Squadlytics is now Tability.io: why we ditched employee monitoring to create better work cultures When we started Squadlytics we had a simple question in mind: how can we help teams know if they're doing well?
fundraising To raise or to bootstrap? That is not the question. A common question to think about when you're an early stage startup is what kind of path you want to take to grow. Let's flip the question around.
whatsnew What's new: compact design, filters, tags We have a lot to unpack this month! Thank you all for the feedback that you've given us as it's been super helpful to put the right things on top of the backlog.
beta What's new: comments, notifications... and a public roadmap Our beta is almost 2 months old and we've worked hard in the past weeks to improve collaboration and give a better sense of progress.
saas Keep your team focused with continuous feedback (slides from SaaStock 18) Before attending SaaStock I had mixed feelings about going to the conference. Our beta is only 5 weeks old, and I was getting anxious about not working on the product for our existing
simplicity How we measure simplicity to make sure users can do more with less At Squadlytics we have a strong commitment to simplicity and we have put a little framework together to help measure friction in our product.
productivity A simple tool to promote trust in your company culture Here's how we're helping switch to a trust-based culture at Squadlytics.
goals Focus on outcomes, not hours spent in the office There are many blessings in being a remote team, but one that I like particularly is that you can't check over your shoulder to see who's in the office
beta What do Atlassian and YC have in common? Atlassian and YC have a lot of smart folks, but they also do something simple to keep the momentum up and help their teams deliver their best work.
continuous delivery Get your end-to-end pipeline ready before coding any features When you get a great idea, the next thing is to start building your MVP. But you should ship a "Hello World" to production instead of coding features.
beta Building in the open: Making project statuses smart The great thing about building Squadlytics is that we can use it to track our own projects. Last week we turned on our status bot, and I received my first notifications!
product development Build stories, not features No one gets excited at the idea of having another set of credentials to manage. Being safe is the story, and having a password is the feature.
product development When Growth Hacking can slow you down Growth hacking is simple: run experiments to make your product more successful. But it can also be a very effective way to mess up your business.
beta Building in the open: Designing simple, intuitive project updates See what we're doing to keep project updates simple, easy and powerful. Read about the core principles guiding our designs.
beta Building in the open: A low-fi overview of our simple goal tracking platform A few weeks ago, we announced how we were changing the product direction for Squadlytics. Today I'll give you a glimpse of what we're building to help teams track their goals.
software development Local development with HTTPS on OSX One thing that has always been a PITA for me is using HTTPS for local development.
pivot We are pivoting Squadlytics The purpose of Squadlytics has and will always be the same: to help teams work better together. But analytics alone won't be the answer to this problem.
Squad weekly: improved navigation Here's your usual weekly update. What's new? Better navigation 2 simple things this week to help you navigate easier in Squadlytics: Back button in the contributors dashboards. Links to issues and pull requests
weekly update Squad weekly: issues resolved for contributors Here's your usual weekly update. What's new? Issues resolved in teammates' dashboards The contributor's dashboard now includes a chart showing you the issues closed that a teammate was assigned to. What's fixed Pull
Design We need to talk about experience debt Technical debt is something that is highly visible to the team, but we often have a hard time understanding the tradeoffs we make on the user experience.
scale Scale your product development with data Squadlytics is born from a simple observation: what your team is doing today will impact how your business is doing tomorrow.
integrations Squad weekly: Slack integration Get productivity alerts in your Slack channels with Squadlytics.
weekly update Squad weekly: Gitlab integration We have a big announcement this week! What's new? Support for Gitlab We've received many requests to support Gitlab, and we're now happy to announce that you can use Gitlab Cloud with Squadlytics!
