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Sands for engineering teams

Engineering leads use Sands to turn design docs into tickets, see what is blocked, and keep the board current without leaving the conversation.

At a glance

Job	Try asking	Works with
Turn an RFC into tickets	Turn this RFC into a plan for the platform team and send it to Jira	Files, Jira, Linear, Asana
Find what is blocked or overdue	What is blocked or overdue in PLAT right now?	Jira, Linear, Asana
Work the board in plain language	Move PLAT-142 to In Review and assign it to Sam	Jira, Linear, Asana
File bugs from a Slack thread	Read the thread in #qa about checkout and create a ticket for each bug in WEB	Slack, Jira, Linear, Asana
Run the sprint retro	Retro for the last two weeks of PLAT	Jira, Linear, Asana

Attach the design doc. Sands drafts the workstreams and tickets with owners, estimates and dependencies, then sends them to your tool.

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Turn this RFC into a plan for the platform team and send it to Jira

More: Plans

Sands reads the board and lists the blocked and late work with owners and links.

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What is blocked or overdue in PLAT right now?

Create, assign, move, edit and comment on tickets by asking. Each change is read back after it runs.

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Move PLAT-142 to In Review and assign it to Sam

Point Sands at a thread of bug reports and it creates one ticket per bug with the details from the messages.

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Read the thread in #qa about checkout and create a ticket for each bug in WEB

What shipped, what slipped and where the load sat, from completion data.

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Retro for the last two weeks of PLAT

Connect Jira, Linear or Asana.
Install Sands in Slack and add it to your team channels.
Use Automatically approve; switch to Manually approve on boards other teams depend on.