Automatic check-ins for remote teams?

[Jonty Yamisha]

My team has outgrown Basecamp, and we're playing with Confluence + Jira. So far, we're really liking Confluence. One feature I can't seem to find, however, is something akin to Basecamp's automatic check-in feature. 

With this feature, each week, an automatic question goes out asking our team:

1. What they are working on

2. Potential roadblocks ahead for the week

3. Anything else they'd like to share

This allows us to reduce the need for real-time, in-person check-ins. Is there any functionality in Confluence that is similar to what I am describing above? 

[Mikael Sandberg · Accepted solution]

Hi @Jonty Yamisha,

Welcome to Atlassian Community!

You may want to take a look at Atlas from Atlassian, it is a new product that allows you to give status updates every week, and it will send out reminder to do that as well. 

[Mikael Sandberg]

Confluence does have an End of the week status update template that you can use, and together with automations you could create these automatically every week.

[Jonty Yamisha]

Thanks, @Mikael Sandberg for the suggestions. I'll check them both out!

[Brant Schroeder]

@Jonty Yamisha I would also suggest looking into using boards and dashboards in Jira.  I have been successful in constructing dashboards that provide all of this information in real-time to answer the questions that you are asking.  Then there is no reason to have individuals report back unless that is part of your process.

[Jonty Yamisha]

Thanks, @Brant Schroeder

I am still new to the Atlassian community. Are there any resources / videos you can point me to that would help me better understand how I can setup these sorts of boards and dashboards in Jira? 

[Brant Schroeder]

@Jonty Yamisha 

Here are some great resources:

• https://www.atlassian.com/blog/jira-software/5-steps-to-build-a-killer-dashboard 
• https://support.atlassian.com/jira-work-management/docs/what-is-a-jira-dashboard/ 
• https://university.atlassian.com/student/catalog/list?category_ids=21734-free-training 
• https://university.atlassian.com/student/path/860517-get-started-with-jira?sid=a8c1c987-e68d-4a23-9730-f3e14293f30a&sid_i=5
• https://university.atlassian.com/student/activity/949128-managing-agile-boards-and-reports-skillbuilder-course-description?sid=a8c1c987-e68d-4a23-9730-f3e14293f30a&sid_i=23