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
- Roles and permissions
- Billing
AI Assistant
Ask how DevStride works, look up your own items and boards, and approve the changes it proposes.
- Asking questions
- Approvals and auto mode
- Settings and permissions
- Every AI feature
Integrations, Webhooks and MCP
Signed webhooks that tell your systems what changed, GitHub, Slack, Teams, SSO, database access, and AI agents connected through MCP.
- Webhooks
- 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
Group Manage Items, My Work and the Service Desk inbox by status, team, assignee and more, a Progress column in every items table for quick status updates, a Gantt table that works like the Items table, specs that turn into linked work items, and Service Desk email from your own domain in a redesigned customer portal.
Group any board by any field, an AI Assistant that reads your GitHub code, and clients who sign off deliverables, draft specs and comment on exact words in your portal. Plus a Service Desk you can run headless.
The DevStride AI Assistant is here! An agent that answers questions and takes real action as you. Plus signed webhooks to build on DevStride's backend, a refreshed interface with a gentle rainbow palette, and templates that keep working when settings change.
Reshape item hierarchies in one step, bring imported work in with its real history, spot cancelled work at a glance, and get more from automations, time reports and the Service Desk.
