Jell

Avantages

If you are looking for a bot that is good at standup and retro, Jell is great. It is a really simple integration into Slack and works really well once you understand it.

Inconvénients

The actual template for submitting reports isn't as clean as other bots. The delays of when configurations become active was also confusing at first.

Avantages

It is so simple, integrates great with other things we use such as slack and gmail and make sure that the leadership team or any team for that matter can keep themselves accountible.

Inconvénients

It is not free. I do not have many cons for this. My gosh, it is 100% worth every single penny.

Avantages

It is convenient to be able to have my users report to me on a third-party platform

Inconvénients

There seem to have been a number of bugs, for years, that just don't get addressed (time in the settings doesn't work unless people pick an "odd" number like 8:01 am as opposed to 8 am or 8:15 am) As well, a number of requests I've made have never been addressed.

Avantages

It makes it really easy to plan the day, knowing you won't forget anything that needs to be done. For longer term plans, you can add them in the future plans section, so nothing will get missed. It's also really satisfying ticking off each item as you complete it!

Inconvénients

There is a bug when publishing the standup that automatically sets the day as the previous day, so every day you need to change the date, and if you don't, you get reminder emails even when you've published it. There is also no way to adjust for a part-time position, i.e. a four day work week, so either every week you need to put in out of office or get reminder emails.

Avantages

I use Jell as part of a genomics lab in order for the team to stay coordinated over Slack while working remotely. I didn't have any part in setting up the software, but as a user, the experience is pretty seamless. It's easy to enter my tasks for the day in a web browser, hit submit, and have them appear in a dedicated Slack channel. Scrolling back in time through old standups is easy and helpful for finding when I did certain things.

Inconvénients

My only complaint is that the text fields are only one line high when typing even though they'll display multiple lines after being submitted. Maybe the intended purpose is to only write short, pithy tasks, but I'll sometimes include details in what I accomplished the previous day, such documenting how the software application we're building in house failed at a particular task and what troubleshooting steps I did. A two or three line bullet point is easy to read once it's entered, but difficult to write when the text box automatically shrinks to one line for writing.

Avantages

We used the software for daily stand-ups, weekly check ins and quarterly check ins. We integrated it with our Slack platform. The weekly check in roll up was useful for my weekly touch base with employees.
We had everyone on the team using it each day. It was an excellent platform to ensure everyone understood what was accomplished, what the plan of the day was and what challenges were being faced. Additionally, the quarterly check in helped us assess completion of annual performance goals. This made the annual performance review process much smoother each spring.

Inconvénients

I would have liked to have more in depth reporting and roll up. This would help for weekly roll-ups to upper management

Avantages

Jell's core purpose is very niche, and it doesn't try to do more than its meant for which is great. Our team can fill out their daily Jell reports and we can go over them as a team, and they are recorded in the app. It has made our daily standups much more enjoyable.

Inconvénients

When you fill out your daily report, you cannot check off completed tasks from the complete report page. You have to go to the Profile page and check them off there, then go back to the Complete Report page, and continue to fill out your report. Not a big issue, but when you do it everyday it becomes annoying.

Avantages

In a world of increasingly dispersed teams, a singular platform that allows all team members to chronicle their daily projects and progress (that is NOT another virtual meeting space) is an essential tool in any manager's toolkit. Jell is that platform for our team.

Inconvénients

We don't have any cons to call out. The Jell developers have kept it simple (in terms of features and usability - we know it's more complicated on their end).

Avantages

The ease of use and Slack bot integration.

Inconvénients

We have used Jell on and off for over three years. The only reason we find that we don’t use it is if we revert to handwriting our lists and don’t have time to enter our tasks digitally.

Avantages

I would recommend this produce it has a lot of potential

Inconvénients

I have had many challenges with this product
I want to setup a stand up but I don't want to get a reminder of it. I want my team to do it not me.

Avantages

Ease of use and integration into Slack. It seamlessly becomes part of the team workflow and collaboration.

Inconvénients

Would like to see it integrated into Zoom Chat

Avantages

This is easy to use and a good way to monitor the teams workload

Inconvénients

Nothing. It is easy to use and meets all our standards

Avantages

-Less than 1 minute to post your standup
-Integrates with Slack so you can share with your team
-Allows custom intervals so you can do standups with different granularity
-Allows reminders so you can get a ping in the morning if you forget

Avantages

Ease of use.

Inconvénients

Nothing, really.

Avantages

The most incredible aspect of Jell is it has default integrations with other applications that we use for collaboration.

Inconvénients

They should offer better pricing options for the usage of the platform.

Avantages

The reporting part is what is helpful fo me.

Inconvénients

Daily scrum is what we mostly use -- and thats is very helpful sa the teams are geographically dispersed.

Avantages

Fairly easy to use. Marketing (constant emails) is a bit annoying.

Inconvénients

Found it counter-intuitive when submitting tasks for standup when certain day is skipped (weekend or non-working day).

Avantages

Easy to setup, reports are really functional for management. Saves us over 1 hour in meetings per week.

Inconvénients

UI could be updated a little bit, otherwise very easy to operate.

Avantages

super easy setup
what am i going to do today can be easily made into to-do list
what's done today goes automatically to what did i complete yesterday list

Inconvénients

price.
if using it for daily scrum only, it's a bit hard to adjust it's as expensive (or more) as the premium subscription of slack.

Avantages

- Free tier does its job
- Daily reminder (either Email or Slack message)

Inconvénients

- Slack integration sometimes become wonky when on boarding new members

Avantages

It is easy to understand

User friendly

it doesn't have any technical issues

It send automatic reminders

Inconvénients

when I write the day and dates it would have been easier if the calendar is there and I tick ion it

Avantages

My team has been using Jell for a while, but I recently joined and am getting started with it. Seems straightforward and comparable to alternatives. But I ran into a minor quirky bug, and their customer care team was incredibly responsive, reproduced the detail and followed through on a quick bug fix.

Inconvénients

Nothing yet. But I'll keep playing with it.