Collaboration
Collaboration and communication are essential. Let's get it from the beginning.
Basics
Collaboration is about communication, so it’s essential always to write everything down - you never know when you will need to get back to it, neither to pass the knowledge on someone else. This is going to help you to avoid assumptions, which can be very unpleasant.
36 minutes read — Twist
The Art of Async: The Remote Guide to Team Communication
A guide from Twist is covering all the questions you might toward making it smooth as possible within your team.
7 minutes read — Buffer
Working Across Multiple Time Zones: Tools and Strategies That Help Connect
How to tackle the problem with different time zones is something Buffer uncovers in this article.
16 minutes read — Basecamp
The Basecamp Guide to Internal Communication
If there is one video that should cover all your questions in today world. Watch the one from Gitlab.
Tools to improve collaboration
Tools are divided into synchronous and asynchronous communication. Synchronous covers video calls, while asynchronous addresses your needs - such as collaboration over design, keeping one knowledge place or having an overview of finances, projects, utilization or deadlines.
sYNCHRONOUS
For synchronous collaboration, there are several rules that can help you to make communication smooth. Take notes (all the time) have one person dedicated to each activity and try to have video calls rather than let people discuss it over messaging platforms.
Whereby
Probably the best thing about using Whereby is that you can create one room for free for four people and there is no bar to join for others (no sign-up required). It's reliable but doesn't have that many features as Zoom.
Google Hangouts
Hangout is a video call tool under the G Suite package. If you like working with G Calendar, it's very convenient to create a hangout link inside the calendar invite simply. A disadvantage might be that it's not that reliable as other tools.
Zoom
Reliable tool with the feature enabling you to divide audience into groups. For 40 minutes it's free, not that easy to set-up even for people who are joining your call.
asynchronous
For asynchronous tools, we tried to choose one that we didn't cover in Getting Started, so they can address more specific needs you might have. And yes, again, you don't need to install anything.
Figma
If you need to collaborate in creating digital interfaces, this is your tool to go. Yup, we used it as well.
Airtable
Airtable allows you to use it as excel, but you can also have views such as kanban and so on. If you need more than spreadsheets...
Notion
Do you need to create a wiki or have condense information over something? Try Notion.
Not enough?
Great, because remote work isn't nowadays phenomenon, so there is enough brain food for you.
BOOKS
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Book — 352 pages
Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
By D. Stone & S. Heen & B. Patton
Book — 368 pages
Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well
By D. Stone & S. Heen
