As the new year kicks off, digital leaders and teams are getting a head start on building healthy projects, and organizations. We’ve seen a flurry of conversations focused on accessibility testing, project tracking, sprint planning and more, as well as app and service recommendations to make your work life a little easier. Read on for new tools, processes and strategies to help grow and evolve your role and organization.
Hiring & Teams
Job Applicant Software: Workable
Virtual Assistants: Don’t Panic Management, Delegate Solutions, BELAY
Team Engagement: 15five, OfficeVibe, Know Your Team, Lighthouse
Team Appreciation: Bonusly
Projects & Products
Project Tasks, Forecasting, Sprint Planning: 10000ft, Mavenlink, Forecast, Harvest, monday.com, Smartsheet, Axosoft, Airtable, TeamGantt
Project Status Reports: Asana Portfolios
Sitemaps: GatherContent, Screaming Frog
UX Tools: UXPin, Sketch, Google Docs, InVision, Optimal Workshop, Axure
Issue + Project Tracking / Backlog: JIRA, Zendesk, Trello, Unito, Asana, Team Dynamix, monday.com, Sifter, GitHub, Hubspot Service Hub, BugHerd, Pivotal Tracker
Source Code / Peer Review / Release Management: Bitbucket
Site Testing, ADA Compliance & Accessibility
ADA Compliance / Testing Tools: aXe, Lighthouse, PowerMapper, WAVE extension, Sortsite, Criterion508
Accessibility Testing Services: Saatchi & Saatchi Accessibility Services
Operations Tools & Services
Online Banking: Huntington, Chase
E&O Insurance: Brock Norton, Lloyds Bank, The Hartford
Mobile Device Management + Security: XincaMDM
Wireless Internet Service: Natural Wireless
Worth the Read / Listen
Podcasts: THRIVE by Kelly Campbell, Businessology
15 Employee Feedback Tools to Track Your Team's Engagement in 2019
W3C: Understanding WCAG 2.0: Understanding Levels of Conformance
How to Configure Your iPhone to Work for You, Not Against You
The Best and Worst Identities of 2018, Part 5: The Worst Noted
The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever by Michael Bungay Stanier