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.