# Round-Robin Rotations for Tasks / Picking

#### Create Rotations Without Schedules in Pagerly

For teams that prefer not to create schedules in tools like PagerDuty or OpsGenie, Pagerly offers the ability to manage task rotations directly within Slack. With Pagerly, you can rotate both individual users and UserGroups seamlessly, ensuring teams share responsibilities efficiently.

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#### Key Features of Pagerly Rotations:

* **Predefined and Impromptu Rotations**: Create rotations ahead of time or set them up on the spot for ad-hoc needs.
* **Round-Robin, Random, and Weighted Picking**: Assign tasks fairly, randomly, or with customized weights.
* **Highly Configurable**: Tailor rotations to fit your team’s unique needs.
* **Confirmation Flow**: Ensure participants acknowledge their assignments.
* **Daily Rosters / Schedules**: Optionally generate schedules for improved clarity.
* **Linking Rotations to UserGroups**: Rotate entire UserGroups for broader team coverage.

#### Use Cases:

1. **Customer Support**: Rotate team members for IT or technical support roles, ensuring equal workload distribution and prompt user assistance.
2. **Pull Request Reviewer Rotation**: Automatically assign code review responsibilities to avoid bottlenecks and ensure diverse perspectives on code quality.
3. **Social Event Planning**: Share the responsibility of planning team-building events, fostering inclusivity and creativity.
4. **Meeting Hosts**: Rotate facilitators for daily standups or other team meetings, encouraging participation and leadership.
5. **First Responders**: Automate rotations for on-call responders to reduce stress and avoid manual tracking.
6. **QA Testing**: Assign testers for quality assurance in a fair and efficient manner.
7. **Lunch or Coffee Roulette**: Randomize lunch or coffee pairings for fun and team bonding.

#### Manually Assign Tasks in Slack

You can manually assign tasks using any of the assignment options above or by mentioning **@pagerly team task** directly in Slack. This allows you to quickly create and assign a task without leaving the conversation.

Use @Pagerly \<team> or @Pagerly \<team> task to convert a message to task

Or click on 3 elipses messages on any slack message and convert to task

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#### Automatically Assign Tasks from Channel Messages

If you want tasks to be created and assigned automatically from messages posted in a channel (for example, assigning tasks for every message posted by a bot), Pagerly can support this via custom workflows.

To enable automatic task assignment from channel messages, **reach out to the Pagerly team**, and we’ll help you configure it based on your requirements.


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