Groomba
:house: Groom your Jira backlog without leaving Slack
Groomba helps you efficiently estimate agile stories from your Jira backlog by conducting a planning poker session in Slack. Asynchronous voting means estimating agile stories in your Jira backlog without interrupting your team's workflow.:large_blue_diamond: Jira integration
With Groomba, you can simply type the name of your Jira issue e.g.
In a work-from-home era, reduce the amount of time that your team needs to be online simultaneously w/ completely asynchronous story estimation.:person_doing_cartwheel: Flexibility to adapt to any workflow
Whether you hold story estimation meetings or each person estimates on their own time, Groomba keeps vote tallies in one easily accessible location. :one: You can build your own custom agile workflow w/ Groomba by creating a Jira filter with stories that you want to appear in your channel for estimation. :two: You can configure your # of auto-polls and to have any new issues in your backlog automatically begin estimation polls, or disable auto-polling to only start estimation polls manually. :three: You can configure your issue estimation prompts to show voting results ahead of time, or leave it up to users to access votes via previewing. :construction_worker: Customize your point scales
Want to use T-shirt sizes to point your story instead? Emojis to indicate story sizes? Animal names? With our custom pointing scale option, you can make your estimation scale basically anything.:abacus: Customize averaging function
Mean, median, or mode? Rounding up or down? Half points? Tenth points? You get to decide how your votes are averaged together with our advanced averaging settings.:timer_clock: Customize your time limit
Need more than 1 day to gather estimations from your team? Choose how long your polls stay open for so your team always has time to answer.:recycle: Re-estimation built in
If your votes differ by too much, you can easily re-estimate a story to collect votes again.:heavy_check_mark: Syncs with your backlog
You can quickly see the state of your backlog w/
Get in contact w/ an engineer quickly with
A: If you would like to only estimate issues via manually starting polls, you can set the maximum amount of open polls to zero in
A: By default, we take the mean of vote scale index. Scale index means what index your vote was on the scale you chose. For example in planning poker scale, the scale index of 5.0 would be 4.Q: Can I change how long polls stay open for?
A: Yes! In your Groomba team channel, type
A: You might choose to do this to reduce the size of messages in your Groomba team channel. This option is available via
A: First, try searching for the issue in the search bar. Second, make sure your Groomba team's owner (the creator of the team) has read/update access to that issue in Jira. Finally, if you still cannot find the issue, please contact us via
Groomba helps you efficiently estimate agile stories from your Jira backlog by conducting a planning poker session in Slack. Asynchronous voting means estimating agile stories in your Jira backlog without interrupting your team's workflow.:large_blue_diamond: Jira integration
With Groomba, you can simply type the name of your Jira issue e.g.
/groomba ISSUE-5 and we'll sync the issue type, reporter, priority, description, and summary as part of a story estimation prompt. When all votes are in, Groomba syncs your result with Jira, allowing you to resolve, flag, or point an issue. We support both next-gen and classic projects and have detailed instructions on how to use both.:earth_americas: Built by a remote team for remote teamsIn a work-from-home era, reduce the amount of time that your team needs to be online simultaneously w/ completely asynchronous story estimation.:person_doing_cartwheel: Flexibility to adapt to any workflow
Whether you hold story estimation meetings or each person estimates on their own time, Groomba keeps vote tallies in one easily accessible location. :one: You can build your own custom agile workflow w/ Groomba by creating a Jira filter with stories that you want to appear in your channel for estimation. :two: You can configure your # of auto-polls and to have any new issues in your backlog automatically begin estimation polls, or disable auto-polling to only start estimation polls manually. :three: You can configure your issue estimation prompts to show voting results ahead of time, or leave it up to users to access votes via previewing. :construction_worker: Customize your point scales
Want to use T-shirt sizes to point your story instead? Emojis to indicate story sizes? Animal names? With our custom pointing scale option, you can make your estimation scale basically anything.:abacus: Customize averaging function
Mean, median, or mode? Rounding up or down? Half points? Tenth points? You get to decide how your votes are averaged together with our advanced averaging settings.:timer_clock: Customize your time limit
Need more than 1 day to gather estimations from your team? Choose how long your polls stay open for so your team always has time to answer.:recycle: Re-estimation built in
If your votes differ by too much, you can easily re-estimate a story to collect votes again.:heavy_check_mark: Syncs with your backlog
You can quickly see the state of your backlog w/
@Groomba in a team channel. :information_desk_person: Personalized SupportGet in contact w/ an engineer quickly with
/groomba feedback. We're also always available at hello@groomba.ai for feature requests or if you need help with installation and usage, and with either option we typically respond within 24 hours.FAQQ: How to disable auto-polling?A: If you would like to only estimate issues via manually starting polls, you can set the maximum amount of open polls to zero in
/groomba settings.Q: How are votes averaged?A: By default, we take the mean of vote scale index. Scale index means what index your vote was on the scale you chose. For example in planning poker scale, the scale index of 5.0 would be 4.Q: Can I change how long polls stay open for?
A: Yes! In your Groomba team channel, type
/groomba settings and choose an expiration time from 12 hours to 1 week.Q: Can I disable Jira issue descriptions?A: You might choose to do this to reduce the size of messages in your Groomba team channel. This option is available via
/groomba settings.Q: Why I can't find a certain Jira issue by typing /groomba ISSUE-5 even though it exists in Jira?A: First, try searching for the issue in the search bar. Second, make sure your Groomba team's owner (the creator of the team) has read/update access to that issue in Jira. Finally, if you still cannot find the issue, please contact us via
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General
Developer
Groomba
Company headquarters location
United States
Terms of service
Privacy & data governance
Data retention policy
We may collect, hold, use and disclose information for the following purposes and personal information will not be further processed in a manner that is incompatible with these purposes:
- to enable you to access and use our website, associated applications and associated social media platforms;
- to contact and communicate with you;
- for internal record keeping and administrative purposes;
- for analytics, market research and business development, including to operate and improve our website, associated applications and associated social media platforms; and
to comply with our legal obligations and resolve any disputes that we may have.
https://groomba.ai/terms_of_service
https://groomba.ai/privacy
Data archiving and removal policy
We may collect, hold, use and disclose information for the following purposes and personal information will not be further processed in a manner that is incompatible with these purposes:
- to enable you to access and use our website, associated applications and associated social media platforms;
- to contact and communicate with you;
- for internal record keeping and administrative purposes;
- for analytics, market research and business development, including to operate and improve our website, associated applications and associated social media platforms; and
to comply with our legal obligations and resolve any disputes that we may have.
Information from third parties: If we receive personal information about you from a third party, we will protect it as set out in this privacy policy. If you are a third party providing personal information about somebody else, you represent and warrant that you have such person’s consent to provide the personal information to us.
Restrict: You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information. If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by contacting us using the details below. If you ask us to restrict or limit how we process your personal information, we will let you know how the restriction affects your use of our website or products and services.
Access and data portability: You may request details of the personal information that we hold about you. You may request a copy of the personal information we hold about you. Where possible, we will provide this information in CSV format or other easily readable machine format. You may request that we erase the personal information we hold about you at any time. You may also request that we transfer this personal information to another third party.
Correction: If you believe that any information we hold about you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading, please contact us using the details below. We will take reasonable steps to correct any information found to be inaccurate, incomplete, misleading or out of date.
https://groomba.ai/terms_of_service
https://groomba.ai/privacy
Contact for data removal: hello@groomba.ai or engineering@groomba.ai. Alternatively, you can send us a feedback request using Groomba with `/groomba feedback`. We will expunge all data related to your Slack Workspace and Jira Cloud account upon request.
Data storage policy
We may collect, hold, use and disclose information for the following purposes and personal information will not be further processed in a manner that is incompatible with these purposes:
- to enable you to access and use our website, associated applications and associated social media platforms;
- to contact and communicate with you;
- for internal record keeping and administrative purposes;
- for analytics, market research and business development, including to operate and improve our website, associated applications and associated social media platforms; and
to comply with our legal obligations and resolve any disputes that we may have.
Contact for data removal: hello@groomba.ai or engineering@groomba.ai. Alternatively, you can send us a feedback request using Groomba with `/groomba feedback`. We will expunge all data related to your Slack Workspace and Jira Cloud account upon request.
https://groomba.ai/terms_of_service
https://groomba.ai/privacy
App/service has sub-processors
no
Certifications & compliance
Data deletion request procedure
Contact for data removal: hello@groomba.ai or engineering@groomba.ai. Alternatively, you can send us a feedback request using Groomba with `/groomba feedback`. We will expunge all data related to your Slack Workspace and Jira Cloud account upon request.
https://groomba.ai/terms_of_service
https://groomba.ai/privacy
HIPAA compliant
yes
While this app may offer HIPAA compliance, Slack does not have a business associate agreement with any third-party application providers, including those in the Slack App Directory, so you are responsible for validating the provider's compliance and executing an appropriate agreement before enabling.
Security
Executive summary is available to potential customers upon request
yes
Supports Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
no
Has a dedicated security team
no
Contact for security issues
hello@groomba.ai
Has a vulnerability disclosure program
no
Has a bug bounty program
no
Requires third party authorization/connections
no
Uses token rotation
no