Collaboration
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- Coordinating a Meeting
- Check-In Games
- Methods
- Interaction, Feedback, Voting and Decision Making Tools
- Moderator Tools
- Online-Collaboration
- Socializing Online
- Intercultural Communication
- Books
Coordinating a Meeting
The following utilities let you coordinate meetings with multiple participants:
- Bitpoll - totally free, GDPR compliant, Open Source, hosted by University of Hamburg.
- Vytein - allows to connect calendars, integrates a chat feature.
- Doodle
- Microsoft Outlook Date Polls (YouTube Video)
Check-In Games
Methods
- Liberating Structures
- Management 3.0 Practices
- Curing Stale Stand-Ups with Ask Kanban! - A collection of hints to get more engagement into standup meetings.
- Retromat
- The Fearless Journey Game - highlights your Team’s hard-to-reach Goal and inspires new strategies to reach it.
Interaction, Feedback, Voting and Decision Making Tools
Decision by Chance
- Kopf oder Zahl? - Head or tails
- Streichholz ziehen - Who draws the shortest match, random choice of 1 of 2 - 8 players.
- teal dice - 3D dice roller.
Surveys, Polls, Interaction, Feedback
- Easy Feedback - Surveys
- Mentimeter - Live polls, quizzes, word clouds, Q&A and more.
- AhaSlides - Interactive presentations with surveys, quizzes, Q&A, brainstorming
- slido - Q&A, quizzes, word clouds
- Swipe - Polls, Q&A, slide and presentation sharing.
- VOXR - Smart Conferencing - Conference management platform including Q&A and polls.
- Voting / Polling Module of TEDME - Live polls.
- Poll Everywhere - Q&A, polls, feedback, integration into presentations.
Systematic Group Decision Finding
- Netzwerkknoten GmbH: Entscheiden in selbstorganisierten Teams – systemisches Konsensieren (German) - This method measures resistance and may be better than strict democracy in a team or company setting.
- Acceptify.net - Implements systemic consensing as a web service.
Many thanks to Carsten Scholz for your contribution :-)
Moderator Tools
You can find a collection of timers on the Mob Programming page.
- Timeanddate Timer - Create a countdown timer for a given time period.
- Webcountdown - Create a countdown timer for a time and date in the future.
- Big Timer - Countdown timer with sharable URL
- E.ggTimer - Countdown timer
- Pomofocus - Pomodoro Timer with task list
- Würfel / teal dice
- Select a Person / Wheel of Names
- Scrumlr - Facilitate SCRUM Retrospectives, Lean Coffee Meetings and others
- LeanCoffee Table
- Timetable for OpenSpace and Workshops - Spreadsheet to Timetable web service (GitHub Repo).
Online-Collaboration
- QR Code Generator - Create QR codes for URLs, VCards, Images and everything else.
- Video Conferencing: Jitsi
- Big Blue Button
- TriCAT spaces - Avatar-based virtual 3D learning and work world.
- Wayports (Steam) - Generate your avatar and congregate in a virtual setting, with collaboration tools and an emphasis on better audio, for better messages.
Socializing Online
- Free, unlimited wonder.me
- Free Workadventu.re - … was used (or adopted) for remote chaos experience r3
- How To Work Adventure - How the CCC built the rc3.world and resources on how you can build your own world.
- GitHub: thecodingmachine / workadventure - the original repository.
- Git.Binary-Kitchen.de: noby / workadventure - a fork I might test … (no promise; said so on June 28, 2021).
- Gather.town
Intercultural Communication
- Hofstede Insights App - Shows differences in Cultures and gives tips for colaborating successfully.
Books
- Mary Lynn Manns and Linda Rising: Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas, Addison Wesley, Reprint Ed., 2015.