Drinking From The Firehose

Whether you are a PM or QA, you want to have your finger on the pulse of a project. If you've got Slack, you can leverage applications and integrations to find that vein.

Create a dedicated channel in Slack expressly for alerts so the team can have the main room for conversations. In your alerts channel pipe in everything. Literally, I mean it. If it exists, set up something for it. Here's an example list to get you up and going.

• Project tracker: Jira, Trello, Asana
• CI/CD system: CircleCI, Jenkins
• Code repository: GitHub, GitLab
• Test Case management tool:
• Client blog: or other passive client news, google alert
• Project email list: pipe it directly into Slack
• Filesharing tool, eg: Dropbox
• Calendar: Google or whathaveyou
• Design mocks: Zeplin