Engineering and IT automations
Surface the work that is blocked
Asks Jira each morning for issues flagged blocked and posts them to Slack with how long they have been stuck.
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Free, and no card. It runs for real, five times.
What it does on a run
- 1Ask Jira what people have said is blocked
- 2Say what is blocking what
- 3Blocked work only unblocks when somebody sees it
When it runs
Every weekday at 9am. You can change the schedule in plain words after you start it.
What it needs
JiraSlackConnected once, then reused by every automation that needs them.
Where it stops
It halts before the irreversible part and shows you what it is about to do. You see the message, the recipient and the data it read, and nothing is sent until you say so. Once you trust it, you can tell it to stop asking.
Free, and no card. It runs for real, five times.
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