What “async” tactics or tools will you try with your team this year?

[Gary W Alvord]

We are beginning a long and complex program that will require collaboration from almost everyone in the company. There is not enough human time and resources to bring everyone together synchronously over and over. We use Jira and Confluence and will begin creating meeting notes ahead of time with a Zoom Clip preview by the meeting leader(s). Over the next few months, we will look into Atlas as an asynchronous reporting tool and find ways to avoid and rethink status meetings.

[Angel Bonilla]

1. Setting up whiteboard sessions before meeting so that people have more time to come up with ideas to solutions prior to meeting

2. Using Looms to share context on a request or explain how to do things especially when working with many stakeholders

[Kyle Ball]

I plan to use Jira and the whiteboard tool in my upcoming projects. These tools are good for transparency and efficiency.

[Reggie Williams]

My main take aways were the Async Ideation - I like the idea of having a collaborative whiteboard and you have X days to fill this in. 

In addition I like the Atlas approach, we have used the tool in the past but not to its full capabilities. We are attempting to use it again by asking team how we can make it work better for them.

[richard Matthews]

our team typically uses async approach the most since we all have different schedules we use jira worktools for commenting and backlog work making it easier to communicate each document with one another prior to our sync meeting.

[Daniel M Hollingsworth Jr]

I am going to bring in Confluence videos and Jira software with me to teams in order to make the use of the time and resources we have for async tools. These tools are easy for teams to understand and can allow for all sorts of edits to be done all at once.

[Steven Turner]

I'd like to try setting up Confluence-based standup meeting notes. Saving time by allowing members to look into past notes an information that was discussed would be invaluable.

Using a whiteboard for everyone to work on when they are available and not only during specific hours would be significant for reducing wasted time.

[Benjamin]

Already using slack and confluence. Also, Jira timelines. So much meeting reduction is gain and save time for just quick alignment.

[dominique_gschloessl]

I really would like to try out loom, since it scales into other async approaches, by enabiling you to show others how an async method or tool is intended.

[JTChisolm]

I am looking forward to using Jira and Atlas. 

[mikko.suihko]

We will propably try prework and loom because many of my team are busy and it's quite hard to find common time. Async tools helps as people can take part in the work in their own time and give feedback when they have a free slot.

[Roberto Otero]

I would use a whiteboard on Atlassian to brainstorm ideas with my team. With this, I will be able to show my ideas as well as my team, and when people have a chance, within an agreed upon timeframe, they will go on their, put their ideas, as well as give their opinion on mine. 

I would also do the async pre-work before a meeting to prepare for it when I know my team might not have a lot of time to meet up. I will create a confluence page that explains what the meeting is about or I will have a confluence page with all the information needed and send my team a video going over how to read the confluence page so everyone is in alignment.

[Nick M - EYMH Staff]

Hi all,

New to the whole thing, trying to learn for our remote async team at www.eymh.org  - I'm currently setting up a 'matrix or work' for our communications and task management and trying to help our team do it.

@Andrew DeBell I wondered if you ran online training/workshops or anything of this ilk?

[Josh Caldero]

Creating Proper Jira and Confluence to keep the team Asynchronized and having the work just maintained so everyone can benefit on being updated on real time on where the items are on the flow is really beneficial for everyone, so were not having meetings all the time to see where we are. 

Looking into having an atlas to have the highest view of how the project is going. This tool would be really beneficial to someone who wants to reduce sync time with meetings and creating a process that will keep everyone updated.  

[Mohd Saadan]

Atlas is something which is going to help me a lot

[Petter Vazquez]

As an online Game Design student, I think starting with a Whiteboard tool for brainstorming ideas for a project is good and could help us not only generate ideas but also take them out of our heads. Introducing Atlas to our project would help us follow up with status updates without having to meet. Especially with our different schedules, we can all keep an eye on what going on and then have 1 single sync meeting to address issues, concerns, or confirm the status of our project.