Keith Vernon and Kaz Obrietan, talking about Kerika made an impact upon their professional services firm, over the past two years:
Monthly Archives: June 2017
Kerika’s integration with the Box Platform
Kerika’s integration with the Box Platform: a customer’s perspective on how sweet it is…
Kerika with the Box Platform: a Customer’s Perspective from Arun Kumar on Vimeo.
Kerika’s integration with the Box Platform
Kerika’s integration with the Box Platform: a customer’s perspective on how sweet it is…
Kerika with the Box Platform: a Customer’s Perspective from Arun Kumar on Vimeo.
Handling the different timezones in a distributed team
When you schedule cards on a Kerika Task Board or Scrum Board, we offer a simple way to pick a date:
We don’t support setting a specific time (e.g. 5:00PM) along with the time: these times are generally useless in most work settings and add unnecessary complexity to the user experience.
And, yet, it’s possible that Kerika reports a specific time for a due date, like in this example:
So, how did happen?
Well, Kerika took note of the fact that person making that time commitment (“I will get it done today”) was based in India.
And midnight in India is 11:30AM in Seattle — at least now, with Daylight Savings Time in effect.
So Kerika shows the Indian team member’s commitment of “I will get it done today” in terms that make sense to a colleague in Seattle:
11:47 AM Pacific Standard Time with Daylight Savings Time in force is 12:47PM Indian Standard Time; something that Kerika figures out automatically.
This simple, elegant way of handling timezones eliminates the frequent disagreements over “I meant my today, not your today…”
An example of the incredible attention to detail that Kerika brings to the needs of distributed teams.
Handling the different timezones in a distributed team
When you schedule cards on a Kerika Task Board or Scrum Board, we offer a simple way to pick a date:
We don’t support setting a specific time (e.g. 5:00PM) along with the time: these times are generally useless in most work settings and add unnecessary complexity to the user experience.
And, yet, it’s possible that Kerika reports a specific time for a due date, like in this example:
So, how did happen?
Well, Kerika took note of the fact that person making that time commitment (“I will get it done today”) was based in India.
And midnight in India is 11:30AM in Seattle — at least now, with Daylight Savings Time in effect.
So Kerika shows the Indian team member’s commitment of “I will get it done today” in terms that make sense to a colleague in Seattle:
11:47 AM Pacific Standard Time with Daylight Savings Time in force is 12:47PM Indian Standard Time; something that Kerika figures out automatically.
This simple, elegant way of handling timezones eliminates the frequent disagreements over “I meant my today, not your today…”
An example of the incredible attention to detail that Kerika brings to the needs of distributed teams.
Trying to be less obscure: why we show the Trash column now
With our latest release we have made a change to all Task Boards and Scrum Boards: the Trash column will now show automatically if it contains anything:
We made this change because the old design was too subtle: most of our users never even discovered the Trash feature, which was a really pity.
Now, the Trash column will automatically display whenever it has anything in it. We are using lazy loading for the Trash, so performance is not affected for people who have very large Trashes. (Some people, who have been using the same board for years, have hundreds or even thousands of items in their Trash.)
If you don’t want to see the Trash, you can hide it using the Filter button that appears on the top right of each board:
Trying to be less obscure: why we show the Trash column now
With our latest release we have made a change to all Task Boards and Scrum Boards: the Trash column will now show automatically if it contains anything:
We made this change because the old design was too subtle: most of our users never even discovered the Trash feature, which was a really pity.
Now, the Trash column will automatically display whenever it has anything in it. We are using lazy loading for the Trash, so performance is not affected for people who have very large Trashes. (Some people, who have been using the same board for years, have hundreds or even thousands of items in their Trash.)
If you don’t want to see the Trash, you can hide it using the Filter button that appears on the top right of each board: