1. Product Management: Blossom

When it comes to managing the workflow of a remote team you just need to watch out for the usual mistakes/problems you’d encounter when working in the same office BUT with the added problem that you can’t white board, can’t look over someone’s shoulder or go grab a coffee.

Lean Startup and Kanban offer a generic methodology for how to manage product development which can also be applied to building products remotely. What changes is the level of thoroughness and engagement you need to get the team’s best ideas on paper, distributed and with everyone contributing to the creative process while not losing control of release-time.

Blossom is a visually stunning Kanban-style board allowing to visualize work in the various stages (idea, development, QA, live), contributors and timeline.

Pivotal Tracker and Asana are two valid alternatives but Pivotal was built with *Agile* in mind while Asana is an ‘all purpuse’ project management tool. It’s really beautiful but in our experience loses against blossom.