Internal Communication Tools 1

[carigs]

Hi everyone, first time posting

Just wondering what everyone uses as their primary day-to-day communication tools? For us (team of about 15 engineers) we use Slack (

http://www.slack.com)

mainly segmented into channels for each project. We also use a little bit of WhatsApp (web version

https://web.whatsapp.com)

mainly for one-to-one communications which works really well and is free. We actually use very little email internally.

Would love to hear what you all use for your tools and your thoughts on them

 

[Celt83]

Microsoft Teams with an active Office 365 subscription provides kind of a one stop shop for storing projected related communication.

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[MIStructE_IRE]

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[WARose]

Skype is pretty popular.

 

[Aesur]

Microsoft Teams works great for us. We can access our server from there, load apps, databases, conference calls, screen share and more. It comes with Office 365 subscription.

 

[fel3]

Gee, I put the phone on DND and close Outlook and Skype. That really reduces my need to communicate.

Seriously, though...In my company we mostly use Outlook, Skype, and the telephone (for me, in that order). I work very closely with two other offices, communicating with someone in each office at least once a day and sometimes more than a dozen times. I sometimes work with several other office, but that usually consists of short bursts of activity, followed by weeks where I don't deal with them.



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[Aesur]

@fel3 You should look into Teams, it is the replacement for Skype as Skype for Business is being phased out.

 

[IRstuff]

We use Skype, but pretty much anything that allows audio conversations and the sharing of desktops should be adequate

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[fel3]

Aesur…

We're a huge, worldwide company* and I don't even know who makes the decisions about our communication tools. However, if Skype is being phased out, then I am sure our "powers that be" will move us to something else.

Regardless, the tools we currently have work fine for me. Since I'm nearing the end of my career, my primary rolls now are QA/QC reviews, mentoring, technical assistance, some business development, and so on. I sometimes do design work on a task basis, mostly when I'm the only one in my extended team who knows how to do something and there isn't time in the schedule to train someone else. Since I'm not in the middle of the day-to-day project delivery chaos, simple tools and caffeine are all I need.

Fred

* Not AECOM huge, but big enough.

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[Aesur]

@fel3, probably will end up with Teams, that is the replacement for Skype. It currently is cross compatible (for the most part) with Skype. Since we started our firm about 7 months ago I went ahead and disabled Skype to make the transition to Teams. On another note, I think it's awesome that your company has a dedicated QA/QC/mentoring person, more companies need this and we hope to do the same once we grow bigger than the 4 founders.

 

[KootK]

I use Teams in combination with Basecamp for the heavier project management stuff. I've not fully explored all of Teams' capabilities yet and suspect that it may well obviate some of Basecamp's functionality. That said, Basecamp's pretty economical and I love it's simple, project based task handing system. Another system would have to replicate that almost verbatim before I'd be willing to cut Basecamp loose.