<time class=”entry-date published” datetime=”2019–04–15T10:25:32+00:00">October 1, 2020 <time class=”updated” datetime=”2019–09–12T10:35:33+00:00">October 1, 2020
It's fair to say that home working and remove collaboration are now a standard working practice. From banking call centres enabling their teams to work from home, to large innovation workshops have all moved online. I can't recall such a dramatic shift in the change in the methods of working in my lifetime. Like many people I've seen invites to many different platforms over the past 6 months; platforms or solutions to allow either video conferencing or online collaboration; it's been the online collaboration combined with the video conferencing where I've seen the biggest gains in the value and speed by which the output is created.
What are some of the core features for online collaboration?
Can users place their comments, notes, content in any location within the working area.
Are standard templates available as a background to help focus the the working activities; for example Business Model Canvas or Persona Canvas.
Can a set of simple columns be created to allow teams to group, order or track progress of the added content
Can external content (documents, images, video) be analysed and added to the working area
Can users create their own fully custom layouts, with a combination of images and working areas
Can the information captured within the working area be exported in a reusable formats (csv, json, etc.) or accessed via an API
Can the working area (in full or in part) be exported as an image (PNG or SVG)
Can more than one user add content within the working area
Does the licence and access model allow for both internal and external users to collaborate at the same time
Does the working area support a free form drawing option
Can mobile users view/edit/contribute to the working area directly from their mobile device (full feature set)
Does the solution provide a mobile application with minimum features to allow teams to collaborate
Does the solution require any licence for full usage
Is the working canvas a set size or resizable
Can other users
Is the working area only available if the users are online; does the solution provide an offline (cached) version to review
Is the solution provided as a SaaS (cost per user) option or does it provide a full enterprise agreement perpetual licencing
Can the information captured within the working area be captured and leveraged by other systems; e.g. integration with Jira or MS teams
Is the solution fully opened sourced; allowing organisation to both take advantage of the full feature set within cost and extend the feature set
