Welcome to Kaijū Brain

Kaijū Brain is a website for managing requirements and tasks for teams and organizations, along with their knowledge, processes, KPIs and objectives. It can be installed in the cloud or locally. If you are already registered, you can log in here.

If not, you will find reasons why as you read on. You can register later.

Tasks and Stories

Tasks and stories are generally automatically sorted by:

• Status – the closer a task is to completion, the higher it is ranked, following the principle of "stop starting, start finishing",
• Dependencies between stories and
• Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) – derived from the quotient between cost of delay and t-shirt size or story points.

Team members can submit estimates for stories – even multiple times if consensus isn't reached on the first attempt. Analogy-based estimation is supported by lists of similar stories. Similar stories are identified using an AI algorithm based on acceptance criteria.

Features, MVPs and Epics

Features are assigned to teams of teams (generally, organizational units). They can be scheduled to planning intervals. The status of a feature in the middle of its lifecycle (in progress, validation, and deployment) is automatically determined based on the progress of the stories it contains. The same applies to MVPs and Epics.

Objectives and Key Results

Key performance indicators (KPIs) can be defined for organizational units. They can be used as early indicators or to quantify key results. Measurements are uploaded as CSV files or created via an API. OKRs allow for the formulation of the objective as text and the key results based on KPIs and target values. OKRs can include initiatives – epics, MVPs, features, or stories – that support the achievement of the objective and the improvement of key results.

Teams and Organizations

Organizational units serve to group several collaborating teams. Organizations represent companies or chapters. Employee data is anonymized upon deregistration and leaving an organization. Data from non-employees will be deleted upon deregistration, in accordance with the GDPR.

Wikis

Users can create personal wikis. It is also possible to assign a wiki to a team, allowing team members to collaboratively maintain the documents. Images or files can be attached to documents.

Processes and Workflows

Processes are BPMN-like and can contain the following elements:

• Simple calculations and assignments to variables,
• AI Prompts,
• Data exchanges with external services (Send Task, Receive Task),
• Manual tasks (Human Task),
• Conditionals based on comparisons or other predicates (Exclusive Gateway, Inclusive Gateway),
• Conditionals based on incoming data, completed manual tasks, or time elapsed (Event-based Gateway),
• Invocations of sub-processes (Sub-Process Task).

An API is available for interacting with processes. Access to it is managed via service accounts.

Interested?

You can test Kaijū Brain for free here (up to 150 records) or install it locally and use it without license fees for the first year. Instructions for local installation can be found here.