Google Chat is a communication software developed by Google built for teams that provides direct messages and team chat rooms, along with a group messaging function that allows Google Drive content sharing.
Track completed and open sprint work across engineers.
Get a sprint report by assignee with completed work, open work, points, and blockers, linked from your chat thread.
Document product outages with provisional impact and next actions.
Your team gets a PDF incident report to review, and critical cases reach responders according to the severity labels you choose.
Report sprint issue and point progress to the team in chat.
Get a current sprint report in the same chat thread, with issue and point progress, blockers, and links your team can open.
Flag ready development issues missing a clear decision for reviewers.
Your issue owner sees the reviewer's blocker on a ready issue when the decision question is missing.
Create a developer huddle and send its link in the requester's chat.
Get a fresh joining link in the same private chat where you ask for a call, ready to share with your team.
Share instant engineering call links with the team.
Your team gets the Zoom join link in the channel you choose, and the host gets a message when the invitation goes through.
File chat bug reports as issues engineers can follow.
Your bug reports keep their details and priority when your team files them from chat. Your team can find the issue link in the same thread.