Zigi is a personal assistant powered by AI, making it easier and more efficient for developers to streamline their work within a Slack workspace. This smart companion takes the guesswork out of capacity management, task prioritization, team-based workload management, and project management. Zigi is designed to learn your workflow and help you stay focused, making it easier for developers to collaborate with their team members in real-time, even when located remotely, time zones apart.
Zigi is a comprehensive solution for developers, allowing them to manage their workflow without jumping from one application to another, reducing the need for extensive manual labor and increasing collaboration and productivity.
TLDR
Zigi is an AI-powered personal assistant designed to streamline the workload of developers by providing smart automations of day-to-day task processing. It streamlines Jira and GitHub activity into a single Slack channel, enabling efficient communication with team members, optimizing capacity load management, task prioritization, team-based workload management, and project management.
Zigi learns your workflow and suggests the next task, manages deadlines, provides clear explanations of delay, and tracks time spent on specific tasks for total transparency. Zigi is perfect for developers who need to work locally or asynchronously with different functions, whether in different time zones or physical locations, and prefer to remain in their Slack workspace. Zigi is easy to install and provides optimal privacy and security for your data.
If you need support or have any questions about Zigi, you can contact their support team by emailing [email protected] or on the Slack support channel.
Company Overview
Zigi is an AI-powered personal assistant designed by developers, for developers. It streamlines your Jira and GitHub activity straight to Slack, so you can collaborate better with your team by getting updates and action items in one channel.
Zigi provides a daily focus list with tasks you're working on, helping you stay fully aligned with your team leader and keeping your daily routine short and efficient. It offers full support for the PR process over multiple locations, time zones, and work weeks. With Zigi, you can automate workflow tasks like managing your Jira and PR related issues by correlating tickets and updating their statuses, so you don't need to keep it all in your head.
Zigi is easy to install- it's a simple plug & play solution that joins your Slack workspace. It's built for optimal privacy & security, so you don't need to worry about your data.
Zigi neither reads nor stores your code and only requires user-level permissions, not admin. It matches your org workflow, so there's no need to configure Zigi to your org workflow- Zigi learns it automatically.
Zigi is perfect for developers whose daily work requires ongoing collaboration with multiple different functions, whether local or asynchronous. It's the glue for your dev team, accompanying you throughout your day, updating systems, and enabling easy, effective communication.
Zigi supports asynchronous development across different time zones, sending reminders at the right times to different team members. This makes Zigi perfect for remote teams, closing the gaps and issues related to physical distance, time differences, and different work habits.
You can share your experience with Zigi directly by writing to [email protected] or on the Slack support channel. Join us and help shape the future of Zigi, a tool designed specifically for developers.
Features
Real-Time Capacity Load Management
AI Contextual Management
Zigi replaces the need for manual management (Excel sheets) with AI and contextual management, allowing you to manage your team's load and workflow daily, in real-time from Slack. By learning your team and company's task completion rates, and considering estimates, story points, and completion rates from GitHub and Jira, Zigi gives you real-time capacity load management that you can easily access and take action on, all without having to leave your Slack platform.
Automatic Deadline Calculation
No more need to do complex math to calculate tasks and pending deadlines. Zigi uses your priorities and capacity indications to automatically calculate when a task might not meet the deadline, and instantly alerts you on Slack, giving you ample time to adjust the load and ensure all tasks are completed before the deadline kicks in. This feature takes the guesswork out of capacity management, allowing you to focus on delivering valuable work.
Scope Change Detection
For abrupt course changes that could put your deadlines at risk, Zigi's Scope Change Detection feature lets you identify such changes and quickly take corrective action. By using advanced algorithms that analyze the features of a new task, Zigi can project how the task can potentially affect the entire project's scope and deadlines, providing you with a better understanding and total control needed to manage the situation professionally.
Smarter Workflow Management
Next Task Management
Zigi is a smart companion that learns your workflow and helps you to stay in the zone. With Next Task Management, after completion of a task, Zigi will suggest the next task on your list, based on capacity and priorities. This feature saves time and helps to boost productivity while ensuring that all critical tasks are attended to within deadlines.
Easy Issue Prioritization
Zigi's AI algorithms are designed to identify potential delays and let you handle the problem or change priorities from Slack. This feature is useful in ensuring that team members can prioritize their tasks according to their specific roles and capacities. This capability optimizes team performance and ensures that issues and tasks are attended to promptly for timely delivery and maximum impact.
Team-based Workload Management
With Zigi, you get a real-time overview of your team's workload and availability, allowing you to allocate tasks optimally and avoid overburdening individual team members. This feature enables you to visualize your team's workload in real-time, with individual capacity breakdowns and a bird's eye view of what each team member is working on at the moment. Close analysis of team performance enables you to distribute workload efficiently, enabling each team member to play to their strengths and optimize productivity.
Centralized Team Task Management
Complete Task Transparency
Zigi enables complete task transparency by keeping tracks of all team member activities and time estimates of each task. This feature allows you to have an up-to-date view of all the tasks completed, pending, or late in the entire team, granting you total control and making it easy to pinpoint potential areas of delay.
Automated Timesheet Tracking
Zigi's automated timesheet tracking feature eliminates the need for manual time tracking, reducing errors and saving time. With this feature, Zigi keeps track of all the time each team member used on specific tasks, providing accurate data on task delivery rates, enabling teams to improve their performance by optimally allocating time to individual tasks. This feature also eliminates delays, as it provides real-time information, enabling teams to respond promptly to issues and make informed decisions.
Intelligent Reports and Analytics
With Zigi's intelligent reports and analytics, you get an unparalleled view of all ongoing tasks, accurate estimates, and performance metrics of your entire team. This feature uses AI-based algorithms to analyze tasks completion rates of your team and provide you with detailed insights that will enable you to identify what works and what doesn't, optimizing overall team performance and making it possible to sort out potential issues before they materialize.
FAQ
What is Zigi and how does it work?
Zigi is an AI-powered personal assistant designed to help developers streamline their Jira and GitHub activity straight to Slack. It automates mundane day-to-day parts of your job and sends actionable, real-time help from Slack. Zigi examines your Jira and GitHub activity, figures out what needs your attention, and provides a daily focus list with tasks that you're working on.
It helps you collaborate better with your team and saves you time by managing your dev workflow and handling all your mundane, non-programming tasks across multiple apps directly from Slack. This way, you can focus on code creation and innovation.
What tools does Zigi support?
Zigi supports cloud tools like Slack, your calendar, Jira, and GitHub. With full support for the PR process over multiple locations, time zones, and work weeks, Zigi provides an easy, effective communication platform.
Is Zigi easy to install?
Yes, Zigi is easy to install. It is a simple plug & play solution that joins your Slack workspace. You don't need to worry about your data because it's built for optimal privacy and security.
Zigi neither reads nor store your code and only requires user-level permissions, not admin.
What makes Zigi perfect for developers?
Zigi is perfect for developers whose daily work requires ongoing collaboration with multiple different functions, whether local or asynchronous. It's the glue for your dev team, accompanying you throughout your day and updating systems. With full support for the PR process over multiple locations, time zones, and work weeks, Zigi helps support asynchronous development across different time zones by sending reminders at the right times to different team members.
This makes Zigi perfect for remote teams and helps close the communication gaps and issues related to physical distance, time differences, and different work habits.
What do I do if I need support or have questions about Zigi?
If you need support or have questions about Zigi, you can share your experience directly by writing to [email protected] or on the Slack support channel. The Zigi team is always happy to help you and hear from you.
Join the community and help shape the future of Zigi, a tool designed specifically for developers.
