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Slack launches interactive screen sharing, will sunset Screenhero app

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A couple of months ago, you could start making Skype calls from within Slack, an award-winning work chat app that's pretty popular with a lot of companies (we certainly use it over here in the Engadget office). Now, however, voice calls are simply ba...

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"The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.” - Charles Darwin

The startup experience is pretty easy to imagine. First, you have a great idea, assemble a rock-star team and read all the books you can get your hands on. You are an Agile master determined to run “lean”. Even with such a promising, solid start, there is a faint, nagging voice that asks a simple but important question: with so much to do across so many aspects of the business, how do you get organized and manage all the moving parts effectively?

Not so difficult, you think. Just reach out to fellow entrepreneurs in the community.  The problem is that you often wind up with more answers than you know what to do with.  For almost every aspect of your business, there is an avalanche of solutions.  Slack, Hipchat, Skype, Yammer and many others to stay in touch. Google Hangouts, Skype, GoToMeeting and ScreenHero for video meetings and sharing screens. Trello, DaPaluse, JIRA, Pivotal, 10000ft, etc., to track your progress across development, product and marketing.  Before you know it, you have a full-time project on your hands just figuring out how to manage all of these tools, let alone managing the needs of your team and internal processes.

What the hell is going on here? I thought we were supposed to run “lean”?

If any of this sounds familiar, you are not alone.  We are about three weeks into our launch and the endless tool options can be a bit overwhelming. Figuring out how to run a business should not get in the way of launching a business.

In the spirit of collaboration, perhaps our experience can help in your quest to be the most lean, highly-connected, highly-efficient startup you can be. Taking a step back, we applied the same iterative and measurement practices that are the guiding philosophy of rMark and began to filter our options.

First, what are our goals for the next 90-180 days?  For us, this was easy to answer: obtain additional funding, continue customer development and develop the MVP.

Second, what is the minimum process our team members need?  Like many companies today, we are a remote team.  We work across multiple time zones, with multiple roles (management, development, design, science) each with our own needs to be successful. 

Third, what do we believe we will actually use?  We all love the “shiny new toy”, however, I have watched too many teams spend more time tool-hopping than integrating and using them to be successful.

Fourth, are we actually saving time and money using these tools? We need to ensure that any tool we utilize actually increases our communication and productivity across our respective roles and time zones, therefore saving us cash.    

After using a dozen or so different tools, we determined these were the best ones to help us today and for the next 180 days, and here’s why:

Product Management & Development: First, to help us drive our development efforts we went with what we know.  Our developers are well versed in the standard Agile methodologies.  We have used JIRA, Bitbucket and Confluence for years and we know how they work.  They’re straightforward and we can track our progress easily.

Project Management & Planning: Second, to help maintain focus across all the various projects, fundraising, product development, marketing, etc., we decided to go with DaPulse.  It provides a complete picture at once, while also being able to dive deep and capture the day-to-day conversations around the individual task.

Communication & Collaboration: Third, we decided to go with Slack and Screenhero for our communications.  We love these tools and their integrations.  As we grow, our foundation and habits of communication and process will be in place. In addition, we chose Evernote for our collaborative knowledge-base. Evernote makes it easy for us to capture and share websites, articles and data in well-organized notebooks.

In the end, to make sense of the intimidating excess of options, we applied the same model of test/measure/adjust when evaluating which tools best solve our needs for today’s goals. As we grow, we will reevaluate our processes and tools. Until then, the goal is to release our product, rather than spend all of our time and resources on managing tools. We picked the bare minimum we needed in order to gain insight, capture progress, measure and make modifications.

Stay tuned for further posts and let us know what works best for you in your launch experience.

Cheers!

看到 Screenhero 被 Slack 買下來的消息：「Screenhero joins Slack!」。目前只支援付費方案，不過在公司有在推動並且購買付費版 (Standard)，而且使用人數還算多，所以可以拿出來用。

整合是在新聞稿丟出來之前就做完了，單鍵就可以同步帳號。

在 Ubuntu 桌機上的 Windows XP (在 VirtualBox 裡) 上想裝起來測試發現：

看起來得把 Mac 開起來弄一弄。

不過就同事丟出來的分享心得，看起來是之前有些同事有反應的要害：

螢幕分享還可以遠端操控 teamviewer可以丟了

不過 TeamViewer 一般還是用在跟外部廠商客戶端的測試吧？不過可以測試看看 Guest account 可不可以參與 Screenhero，如果可以的話也是不錯的選擇…

A nice little tool for screen sharing, very reasonable performance whilst working with a CA based candidate today.

Small issues:

No Alt Tab Capture

Screenhero (@screenheroapp) is the latest full screen sharing application (vs. terminal sharing applications, such as tmux or screen) to hit the scene and gain momentum in the programming community. I'm thrilled. These guys are really focusing on the remote pairing community and are always seeking feedback. In fact, some of their team has arranged to visit our company and observer our remote pairing developers as we do our thing.

Features include:

Full desktop screen sharing

For Macs, CMD+Tab switches apps on the host machine seamlessly (as it should!)

Both host and remote have independent mouse pointers (more below)

No VPN or ssh access required

Integrated instant messaging

Free!

Screenhero allows both the host and the remote developer see and move their mouse pointer independently without interfering with the other developer. Note that this does not mean that they do not interfere with one another when clicking and dragging: both remote and host cannot independently click around and type without "stealing" the cursor, just as would happen with two mice and keyboards connected to a computer.