Bridget McNulty

Inside Alley

Behind the Slack Channel: Holding a Job Interview in Slack

How does a fully remote company interview its job candidates? Using one of the tools we use every day – Slack. We discuss how best to approach this final interview, from both sides.

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2018 Year in Review

Last year was another amazing year for Alley. In 2018, we launched our new brand and identity, continued to build our team, and got to work on amazing projects in news media, museums, nonprofits, and more. Below, we share some of the most interesting parts of the year!

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A Very Alley Halloween

Celebrating holidays with a remote or distributed team may seem challenging, but with a bit of focus, intention, and dare we say Halloween magic, it is indeed possible. We had the opportunity to experience this throughout the entire month of October – and even before – as Alley team members grew excited about Halloween.

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Inside a Massive Migration from Redmine to Harvest and JIRA

Here at Alley we’ve recently completed a six-month project to migrate from Redmine to JIRA for issue tracking and project management. Migrating hundreds of users, tens of thousands of issues, and hundreds of thousands of comments is a daunting task, but we managed it without disrupting our projects, clients, or day-to-day work.

Project Management

Alley’s Redmine Task Board

At Alley, we use Kanban to manage software development. (For more on exactly what Kanban is and how we use it at Alley, check out this post.) However, we quickly realized that Kanban at Alley was going to be fairly complicated to implement so we built a plugin for Redmine, our project management system. This plugin,