A remote Product Manager's toolbox
Updated: Feb 5, 2021
In this video - co-created with #PoDojo - I'm showing (yes showing, not only talking about) the tools that have supported me in my product work in a remote setup.
Here's the list of the tools:
General collaboration
G-Suite or Office 365 - Basic tooling (email, docs, spreadsheets, presentations etc.)
slack.com or MS Teams - communication
zoom.us or hangouts or whereby- communication
webex or gotomeeting - video conferencing for >100 people on paid plans
notion.so or confluence (evernote) - documentation
Airtable - smart spreadsheet
Zapier - tool automation
Daily Work
Jira, Trello, Asana - project management
Standuply - slack app for written standups
https://senditlater.app/ - sends message at 9am the next day
Workast (ex. To-do bot) - slack app for managing to-do lists
giphy app
BirthdayBot
Toby or OneTab, FreshStart - tabs & session management for tab-monster
Mindmeister.com - mindmapping
Meetings & Time zones
Doodle or https://www.fioapp.co/ - finding times to meet, esp. across time zones
https://everytimezone.com/ - to check time zones
Webinar extras
sli.do - realt time Q&A & polling
sli.do is experimenting with a BETA that you need to ask for access: Zoom call within sli.do so that you can Q&A & poll during a Zoom call
livestorm - webinar type video calls, live streaming, video recording -- disclaimer: haven't tried as organizer, only as participant, but that works incredibly well
OBS https://obsproject.com/ - e.g. for user testing oder webinars as well (sorry, not mentioned in the video)
loom vs. zoom - video recording e.g. for walkthroughs
Workshops
Miro or Mural
funretro.io or parabol.co (or Miro or Mural) - Retrospectives
Check out https://www.innovationgames.com/ for getting ideas on retrospectives, planning and more
Heard of but haven’t tried it yet at this point:
tryshift.com - centralizing accounts
knowyourteam.com - 1-1s & check-ins
donut app - random meetings with team mates
https://www.watercoolertrivia.com/ - quiz to get to know your co-workers
yac.com - asynchronous audio messaging
Update 05.02.2021: The Great Suspender got removed from the Chrome Web Store because it got flagged as containing malicious code. Here's an article that explains details and shows alternatives: https://lifehacker.com/ditch-the-great-suspender-before-it-becomes-a-security-1845989664