Asynchronous standup meetings in Slack
4.8/5 (19 reviews)Geekbot is a slackbot assistant that helps users set up real asynchronous stand up meetings within Slack. The solution helps staff stay organized, up-to-date and aligned with the rest of the team. It only takes a few minutes to set up an initial standup with team members.
Geekbot creates a non-intrusive process to help teams stay focused on tasks. Each department can have its own timeline which is helpful for complex projects. Multiple standups break down information and distribute it to the right people directly.
Some of Geekbot's default set of questions include:
- What did you accomplish yesterday?
- What will you do today?
- What obstacles are impeding your progress?
Users can adjust and customize questions for each standup to better fit the department or team, as well as set a personalized tone. Geekbot can understand simple chat commands such as ‘login’, ‘report’, ‘off’, and primary users can choose who has privileges to edit, and who will be limited to reporting.
All information is distributed through Slack as well as inside the dashboard environment, where users can perform a variety of added actions such as report filtering and additional insights. Users can download standup data by clicking the ‘download CSV’ link manage their email summaries and more.
Pros
It is easy to use. You just set it up and that's it, it is completely integrated with Slack, so you don't need to go to the dashboard to manage anything, you can handle a lot of stuff by just communicating with the bot. It is really easy to use and allows keeping everyone up to date.
Cons
It failed once or twice throughout our whole usage which caused some questions to be delivered late, but those were only small glitches. Overall, it is a pretty stable product.
Overall experience is good
Pros
The product is very much useful specially for technology .
We can even attach files and send it to the team where swiftly.
The most interesting feature of the product is shortcut commands.
Cons
Its difficult to send multiple text. We have create snippet and then send it.
Geekbot staff and the bot have both been exceptional, proactive, and helpful.
For a student project that demands steady progress amidst other responsibilities, Geekbot creates a level of accountability that keeps the entire team in motivated and in the loop.
Pros
Customizable - able to set up days and times that meet the projects demands.
Engaging - private fun messages to motivate use.
Increases Accountability and Transparency - having a bot send out messages helps separate Scrum Master from becoming Scrum Overlord.
Efficient and concise - avoids the quick stand-up meetings that turn into long complex code reviews or water cool chats about the weekend.
Cons
No complaints. Works as advertised and the webhooks/API allow for scraping data to where we want to keep our records.
The team was very helpful and their software does exactly what we need it to do. Thanks Geekbot!
Pros
The reports functionality and being able to customize it and trigger it for specific days of the week
Cons
For our usage, there is nothing lacking right now.
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Overall it saves time talking to individual person about their progress. Till date had good experience with the bot.
Pros
It's timely reminder helped me to get timely report of my team mates work progress. Daily reminder for their on going work progress, hurdles they are facing. Set up daily meeting reminders and calendar events.
Cons
Sometimes it feels like talking to a bot. It will be nice if we have some more AI feature in this.
Geekbot is priced at $3.00 per active participant per month.
or
$30 per user/year, saving 17%.
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Geekbot offers the following pricing plans:
Starting from: USD 3.00/month
Pricing model: Subscription
Free Trial: Available
Geekbot is priced at $3.00 per active participant per month.
or
$30 per user/year, saving 17%.
Geekbot offers the following features:
Geekbot has the following typical customers:
Freelancers, Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Non Profit, Small Business
Geekbot supports the following languages:
English
Geekbot has the following pricing plans:
Subscription
We do not have any information about what devices Geekbot supports
Geekbot integrates with the following applications:
Slack, Slack
Geekbot offers the following support options:
FAQs, Online Support
Geekbot allowed us to implement daily standup culture within our team without leaving Slack. We are a distributed small team that has members from 3 different countries, and we manage our daily standups + retrospectives through Geekbot. So far it has helped everyone to get up-to-speed with how to approach the project management culture we are trying to implement and it allowed everyone to see the progress being made, documented and openly appreciated.