An Intellyx Brain Candy Brief
Upon hearing of Clubhouse, I was curious why a startup would enter another agile development project-and-task management SaaS tool into such a well-established territory right now. And then, I wondered how they are attracting funding and capturing traction with some enthusiastic dev teams.
As it turns out, the Clubhouse story all boils down to rethinking the development user experience. “We’re the first project management view that creates healthier collaboration,” said CMO Mitch Wainer.
All the screens a PM expects to see are in there: epic story view, feature burndown, task management in workstreams or Kanban board view. Context-sensitive linkages to Github for source code and Slack for communication. There’s an API. From a feature analysis point of view, all par for the course.
But from a user standpoint it just … looks easier in every view. It surfaces team productivity metrics, automates away several clicks from each task, and seems more speedy and responsive, like they moved the submit forms, project data and source closer to the browser or mobile app edge.
Clubhouse currently favors the small-to-mid sized company delivering net-new apps, where total team adoption of a slick new project tool isn’t inhibited by too many existing legacy integration processes, portfolio management needs and SLA compliance requirements. That’s fine with their fans.
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