Guide
Getting Started
Fibery offers a variety of solutions for product management needs. However, product development can't be disconnected from software development. Product development is where magic is planned, and software development is where magic happens.
Fibery is feature-rich, powerful and flexible, allowing you to keep both product management and software development in one place.
You can:
🐞 Store Stories and Bugs connected to relevant Features.
🏃 Create Sprints to track team capacity and plan as needed.
📊 Build powerful reports with Burndown, Cumulative Flow Diagram, and Burnout charts.
🤝 Have two-way integrations with Gitlab, GitHub, and Bitbucket (and there is also an API).
🪄And of course, there are Automations to automate whatever you want.
The result? The development team will be able to see all specifications without switching the context. Furthermore, they will have access to all recent customer report and requests, and sometimes that's a motivation needed.
If you are already using some SoftDev tools and doubt giving Fibery a chance, consider the next questions:
Do you really need all those features?
Is it worth having product development disconnected from software development?
Is it worth paying twice? Most likely at least some users need to have access to both tools, right?
In this guide, we will cover several scenarios:
Software Development template
Yes, you can start from a ready-to-go template where everything is configured and set.
To find a template that suits your need, check out the software development section in the template gallery: navigate to the bottom of sidebar and click Templates.
How to set up SoftDev processes from scratch
If you prefer to build a structure from scratch, proceed to How to Setup SoftDev Structure From Scratch.
How to automate existing processes
When you're happy with the structure and the processes you've set, it's time to automate them. We created a separate guide where we collected the most popular Automations, and explained how to set them.
In Automations for Software Development, you will find explanation for the following cases:
Create new Sprints automatically.
Automatically mark Sprints as Done.
Change Bug priority based on the number of complaints.
Change Story priority when the Due Date is coming.
Assign QA when the Bug is ready for testing.
When the feature is ready set all stories and bugs as Done.
Split iterations - move all undone bugs and sprints from one sprint to another.
Document template/default description for Bugs.
If Fibery is missing some actions or if you want to trigger changes in another tool, you can write your own Scripts in Automations and run it with the Automation Rule.
How to connect to external developer tools (Gitlab, Github, Bitbucket)
Gitlab, Github, Bitbucket development tools are supported natively. You may find detailed guides here:
What is important to know?
When Fibery syncs with tools, and it represent data as a set of connected Databases. Check blog post about Fibery approach to integration for more details.
That means you can easily connect Integration Databases with Fibery Databases in a way that reflects your processes and have a clear picture of everything that is happening.