Victor Loux — bookmarks tagged “collaboration”

Teamwork on your time

Eliminate 38% of meetings with quick back-and-forth videos and smart reminders. Share clear feedback with time-based screen recording annotations.

Plane - The open source project management tool

plane.so/

Open-source project management tool to manage issues, sprints, and product roadmaps with peace of mind.

Get It Done

boz.com/articles/get-it-done

Too often people do the best they can with what they have when they should instead get it done

Threads

threads.com/

Cut chat in half. Threads replaces Slack for teams looking to never drop the ball.

How To Criticize Coworkers

alexturek.com/2022-03-18-How-to-criticize-coworkers/

I originally wrote this as a doc, and did a talk w/ slides in Fall 2020 at Convoy. This is very focused on how to work in a software engineering team (surprise! that’s most of what I know about!) but I’ve had friends say they’ve shown this to their partners,...

Culturally transmitted skills and values

danluu.com/culture/

Jade Rubick - How to build silos and decrease collaboration (on purpose)

rubick.com/how-to-build-silos-and-decrease-collaboration/

Staying on the path to high performing teams. | Irrational Exuberance

lethain.com/durably-excellent-teams/

As a caveat, the system fix is to hire net-new people, increasing the overall capacity of the company. Sometimes folks instead attempt to capture more resources from existing company, and I’m pretty negative on that. People are not fungible, and generally folks end up in useful places, so I’m skeptical of reassigning existing folks to drive optimality. By nature, it’s also impossible for this kind of discussion to not become political, even when everyone involved has deep trust and r...

Butter | Workshops as smooth as butter

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Butter is a video conferencing tool that empowers facilitators to run interactive, buttery smooth online workshops!

Those pesky pull request reviews – Jessitron

jessitron.com/2021/03/27/those-pesky-pull-request-reviews/

No one wants to review pull requests. This is a sign of a deeper problem than "people aren't following the process"

The user research platform for teams – Dovetail

dovetailapp.com/

Dovetail helps you store, analyze, and collaborate on user research in one place, making it easy to see patterns, discover customer insights, and decide what to do next. Our customers include Boston Consulting Group, Cisco, CSIRO, Deliveroo, Elsevier, Kayak, Mastercard, Sketch, Shopify, Square, Thoughtworks, and VMware.

Hello Kinopio – Kinopio

kinopio.club/

Kinopio is the visual thinking tool for new ideas and hard problems.

Localization Management Platform for agile teams | Crowdin

crowdin.com/

Crowdin's localization management platform is a technology solution for your team. Translate and update content for your multilingual product with our cloud software.

Why Figma Wins - kwokchain

kwokchain.com/2020/06/19/why-figma-wins/

If 80% of Americans Wore Masks, COVID-19 Infections Would Plummet, New Study Says | Vanity Fair

vanityfair.com/news/2020/05/masks-covid-19-infections-would-plummet-new-study-says

Tools for Remote UX Workshops

nngroup.com/articles/tools-remote-ux-workshops/

The type of workshop will dictate which tools your team should use. Ultimately, with limited time and budget, your best bet is to use a tool your team already knows how to use.