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| Tool | Best for | Not ideal for | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slack | Matters of urgent communication or a quick instant message. | Communicating anything longer than a sentence or two. | |
| Email / Gmail | Communication intended for a small or select audience that requires a lengthy response or time to digest. | Not good for urgent, time-sensitive matters or things that you want to share broadly. | |
Discourse | Written team collaboration/sharing and communication that will be searchable by future readers. | Private communications. | |
| Confluence | Documenting current process, procedures, and FAQs. | Making announcements or having discussions (but feel free to comment on things that are posted on this platform) | |
| Meet | Voice, video, and screensharing screen sharing for audiences less than 20. It also works better for internal use. | Conversations with external audiences (i.e. demos and vendor meetings). Also Hangouts , Meet can only support meetings of no more than 25. | |
Zoom | Voice, video, and screensharing screen sharing for audiences of more than 20. It also works better for external use. | This tool is a little too cumbersome to use for 1 on 1, scrum or small internal communications. |
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