Socratic

Intelligent task management for modern software teams

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Socratic unifies task management with productivity intelligence, to show you how well you work and why, with real-time data to guide your daily decisions to their best result.
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Brad Hipps
Maker
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Socratic started from a single, lasting frustration. Every task tool we've ever used was high tax, low return. In those tools, you do all the data entry, and then you do all the sorting, sifting, and spelunking to try to understand the state of work. We wondered: what if we flipped the equation? What if we made a task system that works for you? What if we built something that wasn't just Jira with nicer lipstick, something that was much more than (as one early Socratic user described Jira), "A form UI over a database that tells me nothing about the way we work"? Enter Socratic. Socratic harnesses your work activity and shows ways of working easier, faster, better—all with no manual inputs. Your daily activity drives Socratic's insights; real-time insights drive stronger work health. Think of it as a fitness tracker for teams. What does this mean, practically? A few examples: ✅ Rather than tying up engineering cycles debating story points or t-shirt sizes—time-consuming work that's inevitably wrong—estimated effort is delivered automatically based on historical actuals by person and type of work. ✅ Instead of explaining the amount of work on your plate (something that may change daily), we compute and show in real-time the work distribution for you and your teammates. ✅ In place of debating and guesstimating when work will finish, Socratic renders an intelligent forecast, based on historical actuals, workloads, and a range of other variables not otherwise available to the human eye. ✅ For executive or board meetings, product and engineering leaders graduate from pivot tables and hand-rolled reports to instant, benchmarked performance data and recommendations, based on trends over the previous months, quarters, or years. The past decades have been about engineering automation (DevOps, etc.). This decade will be about engineering intelligence. Here's that beginning. Keen to hear feedback!
Brian Duimstra
Maker
Thanks @cubosupport!
Costi Constantin
@bradhipps Congratulation! "This decade will be about engineering intelligence. Here's that beginning. Keen to hear feedback!". Very interesting! The very best of luck!
Brian Duimstra
Maker
Lina Lina
@bradhipps ongratulation!
Duncan Coleman
Maker
Thanks @lina_lina3!
Richard Gao
Evoke
Always hate estimating, so this is going to be useful!
Nolan Wright
Maker
@richard_gao2 - we feel the same. it's time consuming and often not accurate, so why not use historical data and data science to do the job.
Brad Hipps
Maker
@richard_gao2 plus one, here. Major plus one. Make it the machine's problem, not mine!
Michelle Miller
Maker
@richard_gao2 Definitely my favorite feature of Socratic!
Sasha Krsmanovic
đź’ˇ Bright idea
Congrats on the launch; the pitch is definitely appealing. I am missing a key part of the integration - do you and how integrate with GitHub. And if you do, are you able to somehow harvest the prior project data from it to calculate per-developer efficacy? Good luck with the launch, and your product.
Brian Duimstra
Maker
@sasha_krsmanovic Our Github integration processes commits, branches, and PRs for automation type interactions–moving tasks, task activity, etc. These are all configurable per Workstream. We also ingest data around Pull Requests (or merge requests if you're coming from another platform) to illuminate how efficient your code flow is in the last mile. We have plans of doing much, much more with code repository events. We're working on interpreting the git event data to do exactly what you mention: How do commits translate to efficiency and progress? What kind of coding language takes longer? And so on. The sky is the limit!
Brad Hipps
Maker
@sasha_krsmanovic Appreciate it! Very good question. We integrate with GitHub (and GitLab). Git integration with Socratic unlocks a few things: âś… Task movement in Socratic can be automated based on the corresponding git actions you define. Meaning, developers don't have to worry about updating task work phases; they can focus on code. (This part is a commodity capability, but for a reason. It's useful.) âś… Our model for building forecasts for tasks and other larger bodies of work derives from analysis of historical actual time to complete previous like work. When that work has code activity behind it, and when that code activity has automated e.g. the start and completion dates, our model has more to go on, for richer forecasts. âś… We also surface code analytics as part of our Trends capability. Today, this means showing things like average time to merge, and PR throughput (which can be sliced/diced by just about any variable--team, initiative, location, type of work, etc.). We trend this data over time, showing how it's changing against your historical averages, so you can see what needs attention and why. Today, we don't absorb historical git data ("historical" here means before the Socratic integration) for analysis-- but we very well might add that in the future.
Sasha Krsmanovic
@bradhipps @bduims Thank you so much; I will get our tech team to take a look into this a lot more now.
Brad Hipps
Maker
@sasha_krsmanovic Beautiful. They should feel free to ping me with any further questions.
Anil Matcha
EmbedAI
Interesting idea. Do you have any results on what is the change in productivity using Socratic ?
Brian Duimstra
Maker
Hi @matcha_anil, we have been using Socratic internally for quite a while. I'd suggest taking a look at our methods page as we post some of our own data and experiments as we put our own processes through Socratic.
Brad Hipps
Maker
@matcha_anil Good question! Here's one of our deepest dives on our productivity, specifically to understand how moving to a four-day work week might affect it. You can read more on our Methods page: https://socraticworks.com/methods
Robert Crabbs
Maker
@matcha_anil Thanks! We measure weekly throughput for all team members and workflows. That data lets us explore many factors that might affect productivity. We've posted some of those results on our website. And as we continue to grow and gather data, Socratic will continue to expand its understanding of what makes for highly-performing teams & workflows.
Mert Baser
Congratz on the launch, we will try this at TransferChain :)
Brian Duimstra
Maker
Thanks @mertbaser! We can't wait for you to try it out! Please let us know if we can help!
Brad Hipps
Maker
@mertbaser Please do-- let us know what you think!
Nolan Wright
Maker
@mertbaser - that's great to hear. We have great Slack community so reach out there if you need anything or have any questions.
Aliaksei Saskevich
Congratulations on your launch! Seems interesting 🤔 What makes you unique and different from Trello, Asana, Jira and other Management tools?
Brad Hipps
Maker
@asaskevich In a word, data. As teams work in Socratic (creating tasks, moving tasks, building plans, defining objectives, etc.), we harness the work activity to show overall work health. We sometimes say Socratic is like a fitness tracker for teams.
Nolan Wright
Maker
@asaskevich great question! We've built Socratic from the ground-up with intelligence in mind whereas most other task management tools focus on core task management. We automatically create estimates, we create forecasts for any body of work. We provide an opinionated view how work is trending at any level with an ability to spot root causes. These are just a few examples. Hope that helps.
Khasan
No Code Hero
Wow, I love the naming :)
Brad Hipps
Maker
@haserk Much appreciated-- lots of candidates, lots of strikethroughs ;)
Nolan Wright
Maker
@haserk - glad to hear that! naming is always a tricky one.
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