Project tools

Salsa’s core set of tools has proven to be industry strength and practical in many projects. While Salsa is flexible and able to adapt our tool suite should a particular client have a strong preference or constraint, Salsa’s go-to tools include:

Project planning, documentation and collaboration tools

Jira

Agile user story capture (including Definition-of-Done), sprint planning, ticket workflow, and overall project management and time tracking.

Planning Poker

Tool to facilitate group estimations of agile user stories. Individuals make ‘blind’ estimates without the bias of other team members ensuring all technical aspects are explored and challenged.

Confluence

Project wiki and repository for all project-related documentation.

Google Docs

Google's online document management suite to create, edit, store and collaborate on documents, spreadsheets and presentations.

Miro

Cloud based digital whiteboard tool to enable remote teams to collaborate virtually.

LucidChart

An intelligent cloud-based collaborative diagramming application tool enabling the team to work together visually.

Video Conferencing

Slack

Instant messenger chat for streamlined, efficient and transparent project team and client communication.

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft's video conferencing service to enable streamlined collaboration for remote and distributed teams.

Zoom

Video conferencing and telephony services to enable streamlined collaboration for remote and distributed teams.

Google Hangouts

Google's video conferencing service to enable streamlined collaboration for remote and distributed teams.

Design Tools

Figma

Cloud based UI and UX design application to enable remote teams to co-design and collaborate on visual designs, prototypes, etc

Sketch

An all-in-one platform for digital design with collaborative design tools, prototyping and developer handoff.

Invision

A prototyping tool for designers to quickly and easily create interactive mockups for your designs.

Storybook

An open source tool for building UI components and pages in isolation. It streamlines UI development, testing, and documentation.

Code Management Tools

GitHub

Version control software for developing and managing code with Git repository and final code deployment.

Support and ticketing

FreshDesk

Online cloud-based customer service and helpdesk support platform to raise support tickets.

Jira Service Desk

A software built on JIRA that turns it into an intuitive Service Desk tool

Other useful tools

Merlin

An open source content migration tool for automating content migrations when manual content migration and loading is not appropriate.