Ourspace

The collaborative team design canvas

5.0•2 reviews•

491 followers

The collaborative team design canvas

5.0•2 reviews•

491 followers

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Project management software

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Team collaboration software

Ourspace equips tech leaders to make smarter team design decisions by bringing together people, projects, and priorities into one contextual place.

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Having worked in scale-ups for many years, I've learned that being able to react, adapt and pivot quickly is so critical for success. As a result, teams change all the time and if Ourspace can make that process less painful, then it might just be the perfect solution! Good luck with the launch!

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4yr ago

Maker

@arjsinha 10000% can relate to juggling act you describe! We're eager to get feedback on how it helps you manage your team and company changes in a more proactive mode 🤓

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4yr ago

Maker

@arjsinha @guinda_studio 👏

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4yr ago

As an engineering leader I've seen the mix of mural/miro, workday, airtable and oldschool spreadsheets used to organize teams. The pain of keeping all those tools up to date and with relevant information is often higher than the flexibility gained. How can your tool ensure people will be motivated to actually update their data and it won't end up like another old spreadsheet?

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4yr ago

Maker

@jmkaluzka great question! We're starting with the most basic use case first: Making sure that people and teams are accurate. For that, we already offer a Slack integration, where you can simply update people, teams, and roles directly via a Slack command, without ever needing to go outside your workflow into our product. Where we're going next: integrations with HR tools to make sure that people data (role, seniority, tenure, etc) is up to date. And in the future, we see no limits! Integrations with skills assessment tools and much more means you never need to manually update anything in Ourspace! It's simply a reflection of context from many places your organization is already working!

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4yr ago

As a cybersecurity professional, I can see the value in a product like Ourspace. This makes tracking who needs permissions to resources very simple. As employees change roles within a company, granting access to new resources becomes a priority, but what often gets overlooked is what resources they no longer require access to. I can see this tool being used to solve that problem.

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4yr ago

Maker

@michael_radzicki Thank you for bringing this different perspective to light! You're absolutely right, our change log will make it easier to track these changes, and not only make sure the right people are working on the right problems, but also that they have the right access to the appropriate tools and permissions. We'd love to hear more about how you think this should be best captured for this use case 👂🏼 This goes to show it always pays to have a cybersecurity professional on your side 🙌

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4yr ago

Maker

@michael_radzicki Thanks for flagging this important use case! Our changelog could be a good workaround for this, but we’d need to capture more feedback to solve fully 🙏🏻

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4yr ago

Maker

@michael_radzicki - one of our founding team @txels, is a real strong advocate for this use case. He has some fantastic ideas about how we can build Ourspace in this direction in the future.

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4yr ago

@txels @markvertra I would love to hear his ideas and provide feedback if desired.

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4yr ago

Maker

@markvertra @michael_radzicki hey Michael yes definitely this is a use case that is dear to my heart. Having worked on enablements/devx teams before, making attempts to automate account creation and auditing in various platforms, I see a lot of future potential in ourspace helping in that regard. I like that you mention "what often gets overlooked is what resources they no longer require access to". That is so true, because for the onboarding use case there is always one potentially annoyed person nudging to get access - which doesn't happen when offboarding ;) There are various ways to approach how ourspace could help there, from the more passive (an API that you can query from your own custom tools) to more active (webhooks / events that we publish in a way that may be consumed by external systems, slack notifications that may be consumed by other apps...), to built-in integrations (with well-known tools, or extensible by allowing custom integration scripts etc.). I would be interested in knowing what tools you are currently using to solve this problem, and what type of integrations with ourspace would make sense for you.

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4yr ago

Really excited about Ourspace and finally having a solution to this problem, especially in such uncertain times! All the best for the launch!

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4yr ago

Maker

@craig_hendry Thanks Craig! We really hope Ourspace can make a big impact for you and your teams

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4yr ago

Maker

Thanks for the support @craig_hendry! Unfortunately, many teams are having to navigate the economic challenges right now, and we hope we can support them through it.

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4yr ago

This is fascinating. Lately, I've been thinking about how small teams re-org often to adapt to the changing needs of a growing business. But this gets harder as you grow even further, because the impact of changes become farther reaching and the decision-makers become more separated from the people impacted by these decisions. At the same time, I see real costs to *not* continuing to adapt our teams to the shape of a business and its changing needs... versus simply staying the course until the strain makes a larger re-org necessary. What's more, there's always the question: Who owns this thing now? Organizational communication may continue to follow "the path of least resistance", rather than reshaping itself more efficiently to a new reality. And, to make things more challenging, traditional HR tools will create org charts based on reporting relationships – not organizational structure. It's kind of a mess, so I can't wait to see what Ourspace can offer modern teams. I believe the strength of our products/businesses greatly depend on the strength of the team. Much has also been written about how important employee engagement is, yet many tools to increase engagement are still very manual and sometimes more touchy-feely. It's exciting to think about a very practical application to matching what makes an individual great and what makes an organization stronger.

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4yr ago

Maker

@jake_ish Thanks for your thoughtful reply! I couldn't agree more that "the strength of our products/businesses greatly depend on the strength of the team." I see a lot of shared vision in how you build teams. Very excited to hear more of your feedback 🙃

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4yr ago

Excited to see such a talented team take on a hugely important problem like this. Loving the early look and feel of the Ourspace platform! congrats @stephanie_bowker1 @megan_murphy @markvertra

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4yr ago

Maker

🤝 you are awesome @kyranschmidt! Passing along the kudos for the UX to @laura_agudelo2 and Guinda Studio.

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4yr ago

Maker

Thanks @kyranschmidt ! Really appreciate the feedback :)

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4yr ago

I think ourspace really solves a problem. In todays world, we keep our work in different apps and places, and sometimes is hard to track our people and teams. This is where all effort is born so having this information at the center should be priority to address better strategies for growth, generate efficiencies and take the optimal decisions

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4yr ago

Maker

@manuela_guzman this is totally true - at the heart of Ourspace is putting people first in decision-making - we're dreaming of the same, better, world :)

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4yr ago

Maker

@manuela_guzman completely agree! Which apps does your company use to solve this problem space currently?!

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4yr ago

@megan_murphy we have tried putting this info in our Trello - next to our OKRs per department and also having an org chart in Miro. Our team is full remote all nomads constantly moving. Each week they’re in a new location, coordinating meetings is almost like doing a rubbic cube! Doodle has helped with this. I definitely think there should be a master app, specially for remote teams ;)

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4yr ago

Maker

@manuela_guzman Great, thanks for sharing! It sounds really familiar to what we have heard. The Rubik's Cube analogy is spot on!

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4yr ago

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