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
