Sifta

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  Speed up web projects with fast feedback

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  Simplest way to see how Jira tasks relate to the website

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  Easiest way to create new Jira tasks that everyone understands

Inspiration

Agile project teams that use Jira, are typically well run and efficient. Projects often breakdown (slow, inefficient, stressful) at stakeholder engagement - feedback, input, approvals.

There's a bunch of tactics, but no real system to make it fast and easy to engage stakeholders in projects. For a number of practical reasons, getting stakeholders to login and learn Jira is usually not possible.

What it does

Sifta is the easiest way for stakeholders to give feedback and agree changes. And the simplest way for everyone to see and share progress.

How we built it

Build with node and mongo, hosted on AWS; using Jira Connect APIs.

Challenges we ran into

Most of the challenges were front end related. Injecting a sidebar list of tasks on to host website that interacts with Jira created many js and css clashes. Particularly finding a reliable way to store element selectors, as well as allowing users to select elements, without triggering event listeners already registered by the host website.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Much like Jira, we are not just building a tool that does a job. Instead we are building a tool that can be used to support a much more efficient process. Tech teams have long complained about stakeholders not engaging - let's provide some tools that makes it easy for them!

What we learned

You will always run out of time or money before you build all the features you want to build.

What's next for Sifta

We're currently in public beta - excited get as many teams as possible using the product.

Built With

• amazon-web-services
• mongodb
• node.js
• rest