Team Communication – Slack 

An instant messaging application that allows us to connect with each other instantaneously. We can stay organized with creating specific channels for team conversations or even collaborate with other companies! 

Version Control – GitHub 

Github is both a version control system and a repository to host Git projects. This software will help our team in our collaboration while maintaining chronological history of code changes. Its secure and provides high visibility for changes in the code as they are highlighted for easy viewing. 

Prototyping – InVision 

A great space for our team to add prototypes and collaborate on them. It’s easy to use, functional layout can be sectioned and categorized for easy viewing. We can comment and  leave feedback, and stay connected even though we work remotely. 

Document Sharing, Time Tracking & Project Management – Monday.com 

An intuitive and simple interface that is totally customizable that will help us collaborate better. We can, share documents,  keep track of who is working on what project, how long we are spending on it and easily delegate where necessary, all easily from our homes.

Code Testing – Smartbear Collaborator

Collaborator is a peer code and document review tool. They have comprehensive review capabilities, enhance the code review for GitHub and more, have proof of review to make things secure and legal and provide live updates. Easy to use and customizable!

Digital Marketing Analytics – Google Analytics 

Free analytics tool that will help us measure traffic to our website, performance, and get insight that only the search engine giant could give! One of the most popular analytics tool that syncs well with the other software programs such as the Google Search Console used for SEO.  

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) – Google Search Console 

Free SEO tool that gives us the tools and resources to analyze our website’s search traffic and page results, help us fix issues and how to make our webpage stand out on the number one search engine platform! We can use the queries section to better understand what keywords, terms, and long-tail search queries helped our website stand out in organic results. This will give us a better understanding for how Google Search sees our website. 

Page Speed Testing – Pingdom 

Pingdom is easy to use and quick! All we need to do is enter our website URL and choose the location where we want to check the speed, and we will see a performance grade on how well our website does with suggestions on how to improve it if needed.