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LaunchDarkly, a feature flag management platform, was a natural extension of CTO/Co-Founder John Kodumal's passion for helping developers. Their product allows companies to do controlled feature and product roll-outs for their users, enabling developers to move faster and mitigate risks typically associated with code launches.
Onboarding with Ease
The team was immediately impressed with Shortcut's flexibility and simplicity; the configuration was quick and easy, and kept the switching cost low. Shortcut defaults naturally mapped to the way they think about running an engineering team.
The LaunchDarkly team continues to grow rapidly and bring more people into their Shortcut and onboarding has continued to be simple. According to Engineering Manager Zachary Davis, he maintains distinct workspaces against specific Labels and uses that filtered view to see what the team is working on and also to easily find work that can be picked up next.
Org-Wide Visibility
With the new Teams feature, they've been able to better organize their discrete teams and collaborate with the customer success and support team in a single tool. The customer-facing teams can keep an eye on engineering work, while still maintaining their own board to communicate and work on team-specific tasks.
Before switching to the company's Shortcut account, the support team was collaborating in shared online documents, but they knew it wouldn't scale as the team grew beyond a couple teammates. Engineering and Support work very closely at LaunchDarkly, so being able to work together in the same tool is extremely valuable. Support can use Milestones to help keep customers up to date on feature releases. They also find that relating stories between teams also helps with visibility.
"Moving to Shortcut was great! It was fairly easy to get everyone familiar with the interface, and we immediately had visibility into everyone's work," says Software Engineer Arnold Trahktenberg.
All in all, moving to Shortcut has helped the LaunchDarkly team stay in sync and focused on delivering industry-leading feature flag management to customers around the world.
