Norrland Labs
LovaSara Lindgren · CTO
From sticky notes to a real project board in one conversation.
Norrland Labs is a 12-person engineering team based in northern Sweden, building developer tooling for distributed systems. Before Lova, the team ran planning out of a sprawling Jira instance that nobody wanted to open. Tickets went stale, status updates lived in Slack threads, and every sprint kicked off with a 45-minute alignment call just to figure out who was doing what.
Sara heard about Lova at a Stockholm tech meetup and signed the team up the same evening. Within a single conversation she had described the team's structure, their current sprint, and their three active projects. Lova shaped the board automatically — columns, labels, and all. The team had a working project board before she closed her laptop.
Six months in, the team hasn't looked back. New engineers onboard directly through Lova: they describe their background in chat, and Lova recommends which tasks to pick up first. Sprint planning is now a 15-minute async check-in rather than an hour-long meeting. The team shipped more features in Q1 than in any previous quarter.
3 hrs/week
saved on status meetings
40%
faster new hire onboarding
2x
more features shipped in Q1
“We went from sticky notes to a real project board in one conversation. Our team actually uses it because there's nothing to learn.”