Steady is all about getting you and your team up to speed, at speed. So we’ve been working hard all summer to make writing updates much faster and reading updates much better. Read on for details about our new AI summaries, improvements to our Github integration, and a brand new ability to follow goals & teams.
⚡️ Team Highlights & Quick Fill
Get the big picture fast with Team Highlights in your Daily Digest, which now includes distilled summaries of everyone’s intentions and activity stats to give you a broad sense of work across the team.
Quick Fill makes writing check-ins faster and easier by summarizing your previous intentions and combining them with a “highlight-worthy” activity. Quick fill even summarizes PR descriptions for you so you don’t have to repeat yourself.
🧑💻 GitHub PR review activities
PR reviews are a significant part of many teams’ workflows, so we updated our GitHub integration to include PR review activity automatically.
Review requests, approvals, and comments are now included in check-ins and displayed on the activity feed, giving everyone complete context on what’s happening in GitHub.
For most teams, the updates will work automatically, but if you don’t see any review activity, adjust your webhook settings in GitHub to include pull request activities.
👀 Follow teams and goals
Are you the manager of an engineering team but need to know what’s going with design? Now you can follow other teams and Live Goals in Steady to get updates without having to be a member of that team or goal.
You’ll get updates in your Daily Digest and receive notifications in email/Slack/MS Teams, just like the teams you’re a member of. No more searching around for information or context, just read your feed.
🗞️ What else is happening?
- Our CEO appeared on the Refactoring podcast to talk about Continuous Coordination. If you’re interested in learning more about using async techniques to cut meetings, give it a listen.
- We’ve been working on a UI refresh and some other features we think you’ll dig - stay tuned
- We wrote a few blog posts about making standup meetings not suck, combating bossware, and dealing with the infamous “scrum of scrum” meeting.
Thanks for reading!
— The team at Steady
