DevStride Documentation
Plan it. Build it. Ship it.
Pick your path
What are you here to do?
Every role has a short reading order. Follow it top to bottom and you will know the part of DevStride you need.
You are the admin. Go from an empty organization to a team that can plan and deliver, in this order.
- 1Set the stageDecide what you are managing and who is involved before you touch settings.
- 2Add users and teamsInvite people, group them into teams, and assign roles.
- 3Configure your work modelItem types, statuses, estimation and custom fields that match how you work.
- 4Map your workstreamsLay out the value you deliver as workstreams and seed them with work.
- 5Create boards and cadencesGive each team a board and a rhythm for pulling work.
- 6Lock down permissionsRoles, sharing and access, explained with the common cases.
Browse by area
Everything DevStride does
Each area is a how-to guide: what it is for, how to set it up, and how to use it day to day.
Workstreams and Work Items
Organize the value you deliver and capture the stories, bugs and tasks that move it forward.
- The Map
- Items table
- Dependencies
- Published lists
Boards
Decide when work happens: perpetual flow boards, cycle boards on a cadence, and WIP limits.
- Perpetual vs cycle
- Board views
- Folders
- WIP limiters
Gantt Charts
See schedules, dependencies and dates on a timeline, and plan scenarios before committing.
- Timeline
- Link mode
- Scenario planning
Reports
The question each report answers and how to read it: burn-down, velocity, cycle time, flow.
- Cumulative flow
- Throughput
- Time allocation
- AI reports
Service Desk
Turn email, forms and a customer portal into tickets your team works with SLAs behind them.
- Email channels
- Customer portal
- SLAs
- Automations
Knowledge Base
Write an article once and publish it to your team, your customers, or both.
- Categories
- Audiences
- Help center
- Review comments
Templates
Capture a proven structure of work and apply it again with variables filled in.
- Variables
- Applying
- Sharing
- Health
Automations
Triggers and actions that move work along without anyone remembering to.
- Triggers
- Actions
- Recipes
Settings and Data Model
Item types, statuses, custom fields, estimation, cadences, users, roles and billing.
- Item types
- Statuses
- Custom fields
- Users and teams
- Billing
Permissions
Roles grant capabilities, sharing scopes objects. How they combine, with the common cases.
- Roles
- Sharing
- Access
Integrations and MCP
GitHub, Slack, Teams, SSO, database access, and AI assistants connected through MCP.
- MCP server and tools
- GitHub
- Jira and Azure DevOps
- Slack and Teams
Developer Experience
Build DevStride itself, and run the Claude Code plugin that plans, builds and ships a roadmap.
- ds CLI
- Local dev
- Agentic skills
What's new
Latest release notes
- Latest
Share and review Knowledge Base articles, keep Service Desk replies with the right customer, recover lost support email, and start child work in the right sprint.
Plan with Personas, automate child-work completion and board cleanup, see descriptions in lists, and enjoy smoother everyday workflows.
Introducing Personas: assign work by job function and report time by Persona, plus automations that complete a Story's child work.
Soft Close flags late time without blocking it, Time Entry Access per role, automations that finish subtasks and clear out old Done work, and burndown charts you can trust — plus a long list of smaller fixes.
