A remote Product Manager's toolbox

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