What are Jell users saying about the software?

Easy, Simple & Effective Standup Tool

Pros

-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

WOW

AMAZING. Especially with Covid and working from home. This has been an amazing tool to make sure A) people are showing up to work on time, and B) you can track their process throughout the day. Such a great tool!

Pros

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.

Cons

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

Jell has a huge integration library

Pros

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

Cons

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

mixed feelings about jell

Pros

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

Cons

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.

Jell Review

Pros

The reporting part is what is helpful fo me.

Cons

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

Good software with a few bugs

Pros

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!

Cons

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.

Easy to use task tracking software

Overall, I like Jell a lot. I've been using it for 3.5 months since starting a new job, and it helps me know what my colleagues are working on. This is especially useful when we're all working from home and don't have normal office banter. While I have a separate task list of everything I need to accomplish over the course of a month, Jell is useful for reducing all of that down to "Ok, what am I capable of accomplishing just today? What did I say I was going to do today that still needs to be done?"

Pros

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.

Cons

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.

Small distributed IT team -

Daily, Weekly and Quarterly management stand ups and reports made for a conscious assessment of people's work load and easy sharing of challenges with the team. The platform replaced an daily stand up meeting and resulted in better focus, planning and communication with the team.

Pros

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.

Cons

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

Streamline and keep track of team stand-ups

Our team uses Jell to streamline and keep a record of our daily team standups. Each day, in Jell, team members enter what they achieved the previous day, what they have planned for the upcoming day, and if they have any questions or comments that may be blocking progress. Jell allows users to check off tasks once they are complete, and carry over incomplete tasks to the next day. Slack integration allows us to get daily morning reminders to fill out our Jell's before our scheduled standups. Productivity charts show how much ass you've kicked in the past 2 weeks and exportable csv reports give you a history of every jell you have filled out. It works much better than having one team member type out every team members stand up in an excel sheet. Our team has really taken to Jell and it has become a fixture in our daily routine and has streamlined our daily standups ten-fold.

Pros

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.

Cons

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.

Jell is exception for remote team standups

Pros

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

Cons

Would like to see it integrated into Zoom Chat

Close the Communication Gap

The team at Jell has done a wonderful job of keeping the features right in line with our needs. So often, software platforms exceed ease of use by continuously adding features (we understand completely how and why this happens). Where they've added functionality, it's clear the addition was carefully considered and executed with precision.

Pros

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.

Cons

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).

Jell Review

Jell fills the void of keeping track of what our team has on each day and we can see their progress

Pros

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

Cons

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

Extremely useful, but is it worth the cost?

I'm not a big fan of meetings, and working in multinational companies I always feel the pain of people having to interrupt their workflow and step "out of their zone" to participate to a daily stand-up at an inconvenient time (you know: time zones). Jell helps my team considerably by avoiding wasting time in meetings we don't need... We're still very Agile and we of course meet every now and then (and we do meet immediately if we encounter a blocker), but the introduction of Jell has also made us a lot happier :)

Review IAM

Pros

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

Cons

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

A very helpful tool for managing a far-flung group.

Again, it's a very helpful tool for managing a far-flung group.

Pros

Ease of use.

Cons

Nothing, really.

My experience

The chat function is always a fight understanding what I am entering I missed months of stand ups because I was signed out but didn't know because the notifications didn't arrive in MS teams The chat function puts me a loop and never lets me submit. I have to use the workspace which leads me to using a browser instead of staying in Teams I tried working on a stand up with my team but then it failed when I keep getting prompted to enter for my own.

Pros

I would recommend this produce it has a lot of potential

Cons

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.

Helps Business Partners Stay In Sync

Pros

The ease of use and Slack bot integration.

Cons

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.

Solid Bot for Teams Focusing on Agile

Pros

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.

Cons

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.

Daily scrum made easy

Pros

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

Cons

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.

Maryam Alharasi

fantastic and I like it

Pros

It is easy to understand User friendly it doesn't have any technical issues It send automatic reminders

Cons

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

Great check-in software for teams

Pros

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

Cons

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

Customer care responsiveness is impressive.

Pros

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.

Cons

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

Do your Daily Scrum remotely over Slack

We have a distributed team that use Jell for daily scrum. It's easy to use, and gives a total transparency in what everyone is doing. For free!

Pros

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

Cons

- Slack integration sometimes become wonky when on boarding new members