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How to use Slack as a tool for product management

Slack can improve communication across traditional silos and facilitate the cross-functional work necessary to build great digital products.

This collection of short case studies describes the flexibility and power of Slack to bring disparate teams together, particularly when developers are willing to adopt this tool. Vox is used as an illustration of how to automate some of the communication work product management demands with integrations. Done well, Slack can improve transparency, accountability, and communication in organizations, all of which are critical to the collaboration that audience-centric product development requires.