Working remotely is no longer related to a business decision to save money and time, since the last year it has become a frequent reality for millions of people in need of keeping human lives safe and supporting the maintenance and progress of the economy.

Fortunately, working remotely is easier than ever before. And if you know in advance any of the tools that I will be writing about today, you can agree that remote work tools increase productivity. The better the tool, the more benefit you can get out of working hours. That is why I selected some of the greatest tools I found in my research, that would help you to improve communication with your team and speed up the accomplishment of software development tasks.

Communication

1. Slack is one of the most used remote work tools. It was launched in 2013 and it is primarily aimed at freelancers and small and medium-sized businesses. It currently has 10 million daily active users worldwide and can become also in your online office, helping you to build a digital workspace to facilitate communication and task sharing.

2. Skype is also another wonderful communication tool, whether you are a freelancer or a company with thousands of workers, using Skype will bring many advantages to the development of tasks. With this tool, you can make traditional calls and video calls between Skype users anywhere in the world, it also has instant messaging functionality and allows you to share large files, whether they are documents, audio, images, or videos.

3. HubLinked is a central digital office that makes it easy for each team to learn, share, organize information, and prioritize tasks. It is cloud-based and mobile-friendly, allowing you to access your work from anywhere.

4. Loom is a video recording tool that allows you to record your camera, desktop, and microphone at the same time, which makes it a very useful tool for instructional videos to guide anyone through a certain procedure.

Task Administration

1. Jira is a tool designed to assist teams in managing work, from requirements management and test cases to software development. It allows you to plan, monitor, and manage all software development projects from the same tool. Moreover, can be integrated with Outlook, GitHub, and Salesforce

2. Team Foundation Server (TFS) is a product created by Microsoft in 2005 that provides technologies that help different teams to collaborate on the creation or completion of a project. Among the main elements that it includes, we can mention source code management, project management, generation of tests and reports, as well as version management.

Version Control

1. Git is a version control software created by Linus Torvalds, designed to keep track of changes in computer files. In other words, GIT is a system that allows you to organize the working code, in addition to its history and evolution, it allows you to access the different versions that exist of the existing project and you can also add new functionalities without necessarily altering the stable version.

2. Subversion (SVN) is a software versioning and revision control system. It is widely used among software developers to maintain current and historical versions of files such as web pages, documentation, and source code. In fact, it allows you to maintain versions of files and directories, as well as the metadata associated with the directories. It also has the ability to work with HTTP in addition to its own protocol, which allows universal access possibilities. 

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