From work items
To relationships and intent
Make dependencies and planning intent visible alongside the work your team already tracks.
The Smaller Chunks launch
We’re officially launching!
Smaller Chunks LLC is proud to announce that we are officially launching the platform.
All tools are free to use during the launch phase.
Explore the launchPurpose-built planning software
Serious delivery tools.
Smaller overhead.
Plan, estimate and deliver in Azure DevOps.
Azure DevOps ready Tools that seamlessly and simply integrate into your existing DevOps project—no matter how it is structured.
We’re building a focused alternative to expensive, heavyweight delivery software, right inside Azure DevOps.
Try it with your team and tell us what works and what needs work. We’ll give at least 30 days’ notice before the free launch ends, with a recommendation for the paid option that fits. Launch offer details · See how feedback works
- 6
- Products · Working demos
- 1
- Clear mission
- 100%
- Team focused
Why Smaller Chunks?
Azure DevOps tracks the work.
Smaller Chunks makes the work understandable.
Keep your projects, processes, and backlogs. Add focused views that help your team decide what to do next.
From delivery data
To decisions
Turn Azure Boards data into focused views of progress, risk, and the conditions that need attention.
From execution
To shared understanding
Connect planning, delivery, and release communication so everyone can see how the work serves the outcome.
Our products
Small tools. Meaningful momentum.
Explore six released products for delivery teams. Try a working demo, then install the extension you need from the Azure DevOps Marketplace.
The Smaller Chunks product suite
Six focused tools. One connected path to value.
Adopt one product where clarity is needed most, or connect all six as an Azure DevOps extension spanning planning, estimation, mapping, delivery intelligence, collaboration, and release communication.
Install Suite Tools
01 · IntentPlanDefine value and shape the delivery plan.
02 · EffortEstimateEstimate effort and expose uncertainty.
03 · RelationshipsMapSee the story and what affects it.
04 · Kiosk dashboardsMonitorKeep live delivery dashboards visible in a rotating, full-screen kiosk.
05 · CollaborationAssistClose delivery gaps in one shared view.
06 · CommunicationRelease NotesTurn completed work into release notes.
App 01
Plan
Follow the Estimated schedule in a Gantt chart with ten release milestones and clear dependencies. Switch schedules when you need another view.
Separate but Equal · Azure DevOps
Plan value independently and ahead of delivery, then couple every chunk to its implementation work—regardless of project, team, process, or backlog structure.
App 02
Estimate
Bring the facilitator, presenter, voters, and observers into one shared session with reveal, revote, timer, and objection controls.
Effort informs staffing
Estimate required effort early so management can align capacity, skills, and people to the right teams before a gap threatens delivery.
App 03
Map
Explore parent, child, dependency, and related links on a canvas where cards can be moved without changing the underlying Azure Boards relationships.
See the whole system
Map planning intent to existing Azure DevOps work items without forcing a new project, process, hierarchy, or backlog structure.
App 04 · Kiosk dashboards
Monitor
Put your delivery dashboard on a full-screen kiosk display. Rotate through saved views automatically on a schedule, with editing controls out of the way.
Keep delivery in view
Standard Azure DevOps dashboards do not rotate saved views in a dedicated kiosk mode. Monitor does, so teams can keep live delivery signals on wall displays and in standups.
App 05
Assist
See the current situation, gaps, bugs, decisions, and actions together with live counts and a prioritized team focus list.
Close the delivery gap
Make bugs, gaps, decisions, owners, priorities, and due dates visible without forcing the team into a new Azure DevOps hierarchy.
App 06
Release Notes
Review completed work grouped by feature, switch between Cards, Markdown, HTML, plain text, and JSON, then copy or download the release notes.
Release notes are part of delivery
Keep release communication connected to the work itself. Generate, review, and publish notes as one small final chunk—not someone’s full-time reporting job.
Supporting tools for Azure DevOps
Tools
Our original six products connect the end-to-end process, from planning and estimation to delivery and release communication. These tools support everyday work alongside that process.
Work-item editing · Free
Better Editor
Make work-item descriptions easier to write and read. Use rich HTML formatting, colors, highlights, and table controls, or switch to standard Markdown with a matching toolbar.
Supports clear descriptions, acceptance criteria, and other rich-text fields.
Explore Better Editor
Dashboard widgets
Dashboards
Build Chart.js work-item charts from WIQL conditions on Azure DevOps dashboards. Give each card its own filters, grouping, chart type and daily trend.
Use Monitor-style query settings in a focused dashboard frame.
Explore Dashboards
Sprint commitment · In progress
Commit
Use team cadence and unfinished work to choose a realistic sprint commitment.
Included with Suite Additional Tools; $4 per seat standalone.
Explore Commit
Blocker triage · In progress
Blocker Radar
Find explicit blockers and work item records that have gone quiet across teams.
Included with Suite Additional Tools; intended standalone price $0.
Explore Blocker Radar
Boards queries · Free
Filter
Build work-item filters with familiar fields and operators, preview matching results, and copy or save the WIQL Azure DevOps will run—without drafting query syntax from scratch.
Supports shared queries and backlog triage on Azure DevOps Boards.
Explore Filter
Desktop and phone · Free
Wallpapers
Download the complete Smaller Chunks wallpaper collection for desktop monitors and phones, including product editions and professional corporate designs.
Available in multiple landscape and portrait resolutions.
Explore WallpapersHow we think
Software should make the next decision easier.
We build around the way teams actually work: shared context, visible tradeoffs, and less time spent managing the tool itself.
Clarity first
Important information stays visible, understandable, and close to the decision it supports.
Fit the workflow
Tools belong inside the systems teams already use—not in another disconnected destination.
Earn every click
Interactions stay purposeful so teams can spend their energy on planning and delivery.
Built with intent