Bliley Technologies is a worldwide leader in the design and manufacturing of low noise frequency control products. The company uses Slack and its bots to make space crafts and military devices more advanced and reliable.

Industry: Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing. Company size: 51–200 employees. Established: 1930.

Rob Rutkowski

Standuply serves as a daily “mission control” to help assess if we’re moving fast enough and if we are focused on the right things.

Redefine Productivity

High levels of productivity and organization are a requirement here when it comes to making Crystal Oscillators that are trusted in top notch space crafts, military devices, and many other high end applications. Standuply has definitely helped us redefine productivity and organization here at Bliley and is helping us to go further than ever before!

We use Standuply to automate our engineering team’s daily stand up. We’ve customized the questions and chatbot responses with something different each day of the week to keep the team on their toes and engagement high. Our current list of ‘standard’ questions are:

1. What is your absolute “MUST FINISH” task of the day?

2. Why is this at the top of your list?

3. What is keeping you up at night? (work related only please)

Being Asynchronous

We love the asynchronous nature of Standuply. One of the biggest complaints with daily “in-person” standup meetings is that it’s difficult to find a time slot that is convenient for everyone. Even worse is being “in the zone” working on a really hard problem and then having to break that for a status meeting. As a team leader, it’s also insightful seeing what everyone is focused on each day to make sure we are all aligned and working toward a common goal.

More focused

Standuply has helped us stay more focused and build a more accountable culture. We’ve really tried hard to set the expectation that what you list as your “must-do task” for the day must really get done. And we help each other make sure we all finish what we set out to do. One other added benefit comes from the fact that our team is geographically dispersed and working at times on very different projects.