Core Concepts and Navigation

NASA has an intuitive navigation structure accessible via the left sidebar:

The main navigation of NASA with key functional areas

The main navigation elements appear in this exact order:

My Update: Where you prepare your contributions for upcoming meetings
My Overview: A personalized dashboard of your activities across Jira
Team Journal: Documentation of all meeting results and decisions
Settings: Configuration options for the current stream
Streams Overview: Management of all meeting streams

Additionally, you'll find a drop-down menu at the top of the interface for selecting the active stream.

Visual Interface

NASA features a clean, modern interface with:

Light blue background with white content areas
Rounded corners on buttons and cards
Blue buttons for primary actions and gray for secondary actions
Card-based layout for organizing information

Streams

The Streams Overview showing all available meeting streams

Each stream is linked to a Jira board and has its own settings, participants, and meeting history. You can switch between different streams to participate in different meeting types or work with different teams.

My Update

The "My Update" area is the starting point for your meeting preparation. Here you can:

Answer the predefined meeting questions
See a preview of other team members' updates (if enabled in Team Meetings) in the "Team Update Preview" section below your update fields
Add relevant Jira issues to your update from the "Suggested Issues" or your “Personal View” panel on the right side

The My Update area for preparing your meeting contributions

My Overview

The "My Overview" view provides a personalized dashboard of your activities across Jira. The interface is organized in distinct card-based sections:

Statistics about your activities in Jira for the selected Stream
Your recent updates
A graph about your work output

Team Journal

The Team Journal serves as the collective memory of the team and documents:

Meeting summaries
Important decisions
Action items and responsibilities
Discussions and insights

The Team Journal with documented meeting results

The Team Journal features a date-based navigation on the top, allowing you to easily browse through past meetings. Entries are organized in cards with clear visual separation between different meetings.

The Team Journal can be exported to Confluence to share information with a broader audience.

Meeting Types

NASA supports various meeting types, each optimized for different purposes:

Stand-up Meetings
Fast-paced, person-to-person agenda meetings focused on daily team synchronization. Ideal for quick check-ins and progress updates.
Team Meetings
Agenda-driven sessions structured around specific topics. This format is used for various Agile ceremonies, including:
- Sprint Planning
- Sprint Retrospective
- Backlog Refinement (Grooming)
- Sprint Review
- And many more team-focused discussions

Each meeting type has its own default questions and workflows, which can be customized.

Roles and Permissions

NASA has different user roles with varying permissions:

Scrum Master / Meeting Leader: Can create and manage streams, start and end meetings, change settings
Coverer: Can manage streams, start and end meetings, change settings
Participant: Can prepare updates, participate in meetings, view the Team Journal
Administrator: Has full control over all aspects of the app

Permissions can be adjusted in the settings (Users) of a stream.

Settings

The Settings tabs are arranged horizontally at the top of the page in this order: General, Users, Time & Date, Notifications, Data Sources, Filters.

In the General tab, you can:

Change the linked Jira board
Customize the stream name
Edit the Suggested Issues configuration
Define meeting questions
Change the stream logo
Adjust meeting settings
- Activate / Deactivate Team Meetings
Manage the Confluence export configuration

The available settings options depend on your role in the stream.