DeutschMiro is a collaborative whiteboard software that’s ideal for exploring ideas and concepts in a distributed work setting. Much like a physical whiteboard it lends itself to ideation, brainstorming, design and planning sessions, i.e. work where the structure and nature of the outcome isn’t necessarily known beforehand but rather freeform and loosely structured and the […]
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Remote Team Collaboration: Interactive Presentations With Mentimeter
Continuing on my recent theme of remote team collaboration tools, today I’d like to suggest Mentimeter. Mentimeter is an interactive online presentation tool that allows you to engage with and gather feedback from meeting attendees, workshop participants, or team mates. Where with ordinary presentation tools your captive audience can just watch and listen, Mentimenter enables […]
Read moreRemote Team Collaboration: Presentify
In the last two weeks I wrote about Zappy and Loom – tools that help you with sharing information, documenting work and collaborating visually in remote or distributed work settings. Continuing with this general theme, today I’d like to suggest another, similar tool: Presentify (Mac App Store) is macOS menu bar app that allows you […]
Read moreRemote Team Collaboration: Loom – Screen & Video Recording Software
Last week I wrote about Zappy by Zapier, a tool for visually documenting and sharing your work and your underlying processes. Loom is a similar tool that – by going beyond mere screenshots with actual screen recordings – allows your team to collaborate remotely and asynchronously. From explaining and reviewing code to design critiques, customer […]
Read moreRemote Team Collaboration: Communicate via Annotated Screenshots with Zappy for macOS
Zapier is a workflow automation software I’m using extensively and which I can highly recommend. Zapier is fully distributed remote company. In order to simplify collaborating visually while working remotely they have been using a tool called “Zappy for macOS” for some time now and they’ve recently released it for others to use as well. […]
Read moreFixing Work
I somehow dislike the concept of New Year’s resolutions since a new year is just as good a time for trying to change something or venturing into something new as any other time. New Year’s resolutions also tend to be forgotten ever so quickly. It just so happens that I’ve been nurturing a few thoughts […]
Read moreKeeping a Record of Software Architecture Decisions
The need for asynchronous communication in organisations has become particularly obvious since 2020, when remote work and distributed work environments rapidly became the default setting for knowledge workers. Asynchronous communication essentially means that instead of exclusively communicating objectives, goals and the way by which to achieve them in-person (i.e. synchronously with everyone involved present at […]
Read more2020 in Review
May you live in interesting times. – claimed to be a translation of a traditional Chinese curse – Usually I refrain from writing one of those end-of-the-year reviews because they often amount to little more than self-involved navel-gazing (been there, done that …). However, 2020 was a truly interesting, extraordinary and in many ways remarkable […]
Read moreWater Cooler Talk Is Toxic
An often-heard counter-argument against remote work is that those working remotely will miss out on so-called water cool talk, i.e. communication that happens casually and outside of scheduled meetings and discussions. In my opinion that kind of talk can be considered toxic. If it’s merely about socialising and getting to know your co-workers better that’s […]
Read moreWhy Hyperloop’s awesome and still the wrong idea
On 12 August 2013 Elon Musk published his much anticipated Hyperloop idea. Given his track record, Musk’s ‘Tony Stark’-like image and claims that Hyperloop would be a ‘fifth mode of transportation’ that ‘could revolutionize travel’ people got excited about what his exact vision might be. So, now we know: Hyperloop basically is an elevated tube […]
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