Working smarter with online software
Spiral is a distributed company …we are the ones that bring you Spinnaker!
Distributed means our team work from homes and offices across New Zealand. Its a great way to work, it enables us to be focused, work smartly and avoid earthquake issues!
We rely heavily on great communication and technology and I thought you might be interested in some of the software tools we use:
Skype. For video and voice calls with customers and internally. We use the screen sharing function on Skype a lot
Slack. For team chat and water-cooler type conversations. Some of our other apps are integrated with Slack so that we get messages when stuff is happening on other channels
Bugherd. For reporting bugs and issues with Spinnaker. Some customers will recognise this one because you are using it
dapulse. Gives us a way to visualise all our projects and deliver working, robust software in a timely manner
Inspectlet. Records peoples behaviour using Spinnaker which we translate into improvements to our software that make your experience of it better or quicker
Highrise. CRM that helps me stay organised
2021 Update
Pandemics are another good reason to work the way we do - we just didn’t know that in 2017.
BTW Our list of software tools has changed, a little bit, but Slack continues to be central to our team.
