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Working at home? These tools you’ll need (4/5)

Working from home is sometimes tricky. But it’s a lot easier with the tools below. In this blog series, we look at the following facets and associated tools:

• a communication tool;
• a meeting tool;
• a tool for storage;
• A tool for organizing your work;
• A tool for whiteboarding.

Organizing your work

Knowing what the team is working on, and what follows, is essential to good teamwork. So you need a tool that organizes your work in a clear and effective way. Of course, in our work, that means that the tool supports an Agile way of working. So it should at least support Product Backlog management and visualize the work in a sprint.

Atlassian Jira

Jira is a very comprehensive project management tool with support for Scrum and Kanban boards, roadmap visualization and offers all kinds of Agile metrics. It is fairly easy to use, but the extensive features will leave you a little dizzy as a beginner. There is a free version and several paid variants.

Trello

Trello is a lightweight tool that allows you to create lists that visualize your workflow. It’s super easy to quickly create a Scrum board. It’s a lot more basic fan Jira, but also much faster to understand. The basic version is free.

Notion

Notion is an all-in-one collaboration tool that supports the creation of notes, documents, tasks, pages and even simple databases. Super if you like to have everything in one tool, although it does fall a bit short on, say, Product Backlog management. Free and paid variants.

>>> Continue to article 5 on whiteboarding tools.

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