Author: Geraldo Figueras, marketer at remote company Xoxzo Welcome to our development diaries for Project Plum. We’re a building a work management software for remote workers and we’ll be sharing details of the development process with our community. If you want to know how it all started, just check these blogposts before you move forward: Introduction:…
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If you ask most managers and bosses about their biggest fear in letting their teams go remote, the majority will say that they’re afraid of employees not working properly due to lack of supervision.
When the cat’s away, the mice will play.
Nothing could be further from the truth. But it depends.
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When we started developing Plum, our original aim was to quickly develop the MVP and so, we started using it to validate our idea. Since Plum features mainly live at the front end and require a lot of Javascript code, we decided to use matured JS framework to build it.
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One very important aspect of 100% remote working is that as a general rule everyone works in their own time. Not only can your co-workers be in different time zones from you, they might also be traveling and only check in for work early morning before a day of sightseeing, or they might be going in and out of work as they deal with other aspects of life such as preparing and sending their kids to school.
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Work management software tool Plum is being build very laterally within our team. Everyone is a planner, everyone is a creator. We need Plum to, first and foremost, work for us. So it’s important that everyone feels comfortable to share their needs.
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Welcome to our development diaries for Project Plum. We’re a building a work management software for remote workers and we’ll be sharing details of the development process with our community. If you want to know how it all started, just before you move forward. Otherwise, let’s see what we have today.
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So there you go. We’re excited to show to you Plum: a simple and intuitive workflow management for remote workers like you and us.
It’s not the final name, mind you. But it’s better than referencing “that software we’re building” every single time. In the upcoming months, I want to share a lot with you about Plum’s development. Discussions that the team held about particular functionalities. Definitions. The philosophy behind our choices.
Iqbal, the CEO from remote company Xoxzo, thoroughly reviewed and compared the video conferencing tools Google Meet, Slack, Zoom, Whereby, and BlueJeans.
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Ok, so you just made the jump from office life to remote life. While everything can seem exciting at first, you shouldn’t underestimate the work-from-home lifestyle. These are the 3 indispensable pieces of tool that I need to have a smooth day as a remote worker.
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