Read on to learn about a highly requested update to our Jira integration and more about Echoes, which just launched in beta.
đź’¬ Jira integration updates
Jira issue comments are important context for understanding where things stand, and including them in Steady has been a top request. The wait is over. Now you can see when comments are added to issues in Jira, as well as what was said. We also made some other improvements while we were at it. Jira treats most activity as “changed” in their API, which isn’t particularly useful in and of itself. Our Jira activity includes the full context; what changed, and how.
To start seeing comment activity, you may need to adjust your Jira webhook setting to include the “Comment” events if you didn’t include them when first setting it up.
Echoes
In our last issue we gave you a sneak peek at Echoes, our upcoming feature that gives you the context you need, when you need it, automatically. This time around, we thought we’d show you a concrete example of how we’re using Echoes ourselves.
Pictured in the screenshot above is a real response from a “Merged PRs” Echo that our Head of Design uses to stay on top of what’s going out the door. From the simple request — “List all the Github pull requests that were merged in the last week.” — Echoes gathers all of the GitHub pull requests across all of our repositories that were merged in the last 7 days, creates summaries for each, and lists them all in a single entry that gets pushed to their Digest + Slack every Monday at 9:30 AM.
So instead of spending 30 minutes every Monday reading through GitHub to put a complete picture together, they just… read the Echo. Time back, toil eliminated. That’s Echoes.
If you’re interested in beta testing Echoes, let us know.
🗞️ What else is happening?
- Henry digs into the impact of prioritizing metrics like time on page in Incentives and Outcomes.
- We noted some takeaways from PwC’s 2024 Workforce Radar report.
Thanks for reading.
— The team at Steady
