Welcome to a new episode of The Entrepreneur Podcast, today we have with Anand Inamdar founder at UpRaise.io from Pune, India. UpRaise is an Agile Performance Management add-on for JIRA. At the moment it simply works as as add-on to project management tool JIRA and soon the team plan to convert it into a stand alone product that has state of the art features like Natural language processing, Sentiment analysis, Focus coach etc.     Anand did his engineering from National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Orissa and prior to UpRaise he was an analyst at Loylogic and ab engineer at Capegmenini. Key Features : If you are using Atlassian’s JIRA for Project Management ? UpRaise is definitely for you! Increase collaboration at work. Align Efforts with Objectives & Key Results One of the formidable challenges while managing a team is getting everyone’s efforts aligned in the same direction. Constant communication and organisational transparency are key traits of a mission maniac team. UpRaise is seamlessly integrated with JIRA to help you connect the Company’s strategic plan with Goals of individual team members. Easy access and simple tracking in JIRA expedites the adoption like no other tool. UpRaise helps you create customised feedback tags that suit your Organisation’s culture. Easy and quick recognitions specific to a JIRA issue or generic ones. Team members can request feedback from managers and peers alike. Give away the defunct annual reviews and adopt UpRaise for continuous improvements. And what’s more – all this data will be handy available for you in the periodic performance reviews. Stop managing spreadsheets and documents for performance reviews. UpRaise brings along easy and highly customisable forms in JIRA. Design, Configure & Distribute – that simple. As more and more companies move into frequent performance reviews mode, jump on the wagon. Performance reviews in JIRA are contextual and thereby more meaningful. Manage the workflow of each review form independently, matching your processes Coupon Code : mail Anand at [email protected] & mention TAE16 for a special discount. About:  Anand Inamdar : LinkedIn Links UpRaise : Web ; Twitter ; LinkedIn The Entrepreneur  Podcast interviews and chats with today’s most successful entrepreneurs and founders from Asia, Singapore, India, China, Japan, Malaysia , Indonesia and more and asking them what steps they used to become a success, how they started up and you will be prepared to take your inspiration and motivation and put it into action.