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Welcome to Episode 24 of mastermind.fm! This week our resident masterminds Jean Galea and James Laws look at the software that they use at work every day for productivity and development. They also mention Slack once or twice. There’s a lot of neat tools here, so be sure to check it out! Show notes are below as always, but catch the full audio podcast right here so that you don’t miss a thing!
Software for Development
- Slack: Jean and James both use Slack in their development workflow. It’s also a mainstay of general communication as well. Check out the audio for a breakdown of how Slack channels are set up for Jean and James’ teams!
- Github: for storing code (James)
- Source Tree: for interacting with Git (James)
- Atlassian Suit: Jean’s team uses a lot of Atlassian software, some of which are listed below.
- Bitbucket: for storing code (Jean)
- Jira: managing development issues (Jean)
- Confluence: company notice board and on-boarding (Jean)
- KinHR: team management and on-boarding (James)
- PHP Storm and Sublime Text: writing code (James)
Team Slack Channels We Follow
- Post Status (Jean and James)
- Advanced WP (Jean)
- Official WordPress Dev Chat (Jean)
- WP Nashville (James)
- WP Chattanooga (James)
Productivity Software
- Trello: for project workflow management (Jean and James)
- Skype: remote voice communication (Jean)
- Appear.in: new alternative for remote voice communication (Jean and James)
- Zapier: automation for integrating other services together (Jean and James)
- If This Then That: more automated integration! (Jean and James)
- Transmit: FTP (Jean)
- FileZilla: FTP (Jean and James)
- Wunderlist: interactive to-do software with notifications (James)
- Google Inbox: email management (James)
- Mailplane: Gmail in an App! (Jean)
- Airmail: email app that handles multi-service integration (Jean)
- Google Drive: file sharing (James)
- Dropbox: file sharing (Jean and James)
Featured On The Show:
- WP Ninjas
- WP Mayor
- WP RSS Aggregator
- My Software Toolbox – 2016 Edition
- Source Tree
- GitHub
- Bitbucket
- Atlassian
- Jira
- Confluence
- Trello
- PHP Storm
- Sublime Text 3
- Sequel Pro
- PinPon
- PlusPlus
- WP News Desk
- Post Status
- WP Nashville
- WP Developers Club
- MatterMost
- Appear.in
- If This then That
- FileZilla
- WonderList
- Zoho Mail
- Followupthen
- DropBox
- Evernote