Sprinting with HipChat
February 09, 2019

Sprinting with HipChat

Bob Cadieux | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with HipChat

HipChat is used by our Agile Transformation Office (ATO). We create Kanban and Scrum team rooms. Each team collaborates in dynamic discussions on daily work. We also have support and private scrum master channels.
  • Create team rooms for Kanban and Scrum teams.
  • Great tool for immediate collaboration.
  • Allow public access to team room or restrict members.
  • Add attachments to discussions.
  • Create a new private room on the fly.
  • New messages alert room members in e-mail.
  • Start a new room within minutes.
  • Integrates with JIRA and Confluence Wiki sites.
  • Search box allows filtering through all discussions.
  • Integrate with Skype for Business. We do nor have GotoMeeting
  • Allow working in multiple rooms at same time.
Slack and Google Hangouts have more features and offer meeting functionality. My choice would be Google Hangouts for ceremonies and Slack for messaging.
HipChat is well suited for Scrum teams in Sprints. Excellent tool for handling story defects or asking business stakeholders questions. By integrating with JIRA, we can address a story issue immediately. HipChat does not provide a meeting function.

HipChat (discontinued) Feature Ratings

Mobile Access
7
Search
7
Chat
9
Notifications
9
Discussions
9
Integrates with GoToMeeting
8
Video files
8
Audio files
8
Access control
7
Integrates with Google Drive
5
Device sync
5