Slack

noun · team messaging · element 93 of 117

Team messaging in channels instead of email threads, with integrations that bring alerts and tools into the conversation.

My levelAdvancedDeep production experience. I design systems with it and debug it fast.

In my work since: 2017
Family: Workplace and CRM

What is Slack?

Slack organises a team's conversations into channels, threads and direct messages, and connects to the rest of the toolkit, so deploy notices, form alerts and tickets arrive where people already talk. Salesforce has owned it since 2021.

How I use Slack

At Bizzolutions, Slack and Jira ran our Agile work.

Where I have used itSlack by company and year, from the projects on this site and the rest of my career.

BizzolutionsSecure development · 2017 to 2019

What Slack connects to

JiraAtlassian's issue and project tracker: tickets, sprints and boards for software teams working in Agile.
Microsoft 365Microsoft's office suite, once Office 365: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams, with OneDrive and SharePoint.
Google WorkspaceGoogle's office suite: Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drive and Meet, built for working on the same file at the same time.

Type	Team messaging
Launched	2013
Owned by	Salesforce