How it works

You give the brief, team Echelon does the rest.

Give the team a task and get finished work back, built, checked, and corrected before it reaches you. Most of the job happens without you, so your time goes to deciding what's next instead of managing how it gets done.

Five steps Automated QA Two involvements

One job, start to finish

A job comes in
Leadsplits it up
PMwrites the scope
Developerbuilds it
QAchecks it
Shipped

QA sends work back to the developer without asking you first. You only see it once it has passed.

Start to finish

The five steps.

You give the brief

You say what you want in a Slack channel, in your own words. There's no ticket format to learn and no particular way you have to phrase it.

The Lead splits it

The Lead breaks the brief into pieces and decides who takes each one. Nobody starts building before the work has been divided up.

The PM writes the scope

What's being built, what's out of scope, and what finished looks like. Written down first, so there's something to check the result against later.

The Developer builds it

Against that scope, using what the team already knows about your systems rather than starting cold.

QA checks it, and can refuse it

QA either signs the work off or sends it back.

The step that matters

Work gets turned down before you see it.

Most tools hand you a first attempt and leave you to find the problems with it. That's where your afternoon goes.

When QA rejects something here, the finding gets written down, the developer does the work again, and QA looks at it a second time. You see the outcome of that loop rather than the loop itself.

The reason it's worth the extra step is simple. The alternative is you doing the checking, and that's the largest single block of your time in the comparison on the home page.

See a team work, live.

Step onto the board a team is on right now and watch the work move. Nothing to set up, nothing to sign up for.

It lives in Slack

No new tool to learn.

The team sits in a Slack channel with you. You brief them there, the work happens there, and you review it there. If your company already runs on Slack, there's nothing to install and nowhere else to log in.

Every decision, handoff and finding gets written where you can read it. Nothing happens somewhere you can't see.

Standing a team up

What it takes to start.

The team is added to a Slack channel in your workspace and given access to what the work requires, scoped deliberately. After that you give it a brief. There's no configuration phase.