Case Study: Sonatype achieves real-time agile collaboration across distributed teams with Jira Software

Hipchat Helps Sonatype's Distributed Development Team Stay Agile

Sonatype, a pioneer in component-based software development focused on reducing risks from third-party and open-source components while speeding delivery, runs a 100% distributed engineering organization of 30+ product experts across the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Following agile scrum practices but rarely able to meet face-to-face, the team needed a reliable platform for both 1:1 and group communication and chose Hipchat.

Hipchat quickly became a core part of Sonatype’s workflow, replacing much internal email and extending company-wide to support and sales teams. Integrations with Jira and Bamboo let developers pull issue descriptions into chat and receive build notifications in real time, speeding stand-ups, troubleshooting, and customer interactions—improving collaboration and keeping the development workflow “humming.”

Sonatype

Mike Hansen

Senior VP of Engineering