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Slack for teams and stories

July 24th, 2024

Slack, with its outstanding user experience, is the go-to chat platform for software development. Our team relies on it for real-time discussions, sharing time-sensitive information, and handling urgent issues (we've abandoned email entirely to avoid juggling multiple inboxes). Integrating Slack with Atono instead of building our own chat feature ensures teams can keep using their favorite chat platform without disruption.

Slack is great for quick communication, and once a discussion about a story, bug, or security vulnerability wraps up, you can easily turn any resulting decisions into actionable items in Atono. Our goal is to maintain this balance and provide a seamless, easy-to-use integration between Atono and Slack, making sure both tools work well together without much overlap.

Atono meets Slack

The Atono Slack integration provides convenience and encourages best practices for teams using both Atono and Slack in their work. By leveraging the strengths of both platforms, Atono helps teams streamline their workflows, fostering better collaboration and keeping everyone organized and on track.

For our MVP, we’ve focused on two key integration points:

  • Teams: Create or connect to existing team channels in Slack, where you can discuss issues, share code samples, and collaborate effectively. Team members can be added automatically on channel creation or later if they join the team. Important updates like team membership changes, feature flag activity, and deployments are automatically posted to keep everyone informed.
  • Stories: Collaborate on design, implementation, testing, and deployment in dedicated channels. Atono keeps implementers up to date by positing significant story-related activities directly to these channels.
Screenshot of a conversation in a Slack channel created from Atono. The Atono app in Slack announces which Atono team the channel has been created for, with a link to that team, and members of that team are automatically added. A discussion occurs about a new feature, and messages from Atono onfirm the channel has been connected to a story and a feature flag in Atono, including links to those items in Atono.

What’s next?

As Atono evolves, so will our Slack integration. Look forward to features like enhanced workflows, usage metrics, and deployment notifications. Additionally, the Atono Slack app will support slash commands for reporting bugs, moving items through workflows, posting comments, and more exciting features to come.