join.me is a super convenient service for quick screen sharing. I heard that Mercari engineers use it for pair programming, so I tried it in today’s meeting.

Today’s meeting involved looking at Backlog and Github issues while estimating development effort for next week’s tasks. While discussing things like “This feature will take 3 hours of development time, and maybe 2 hours for review and QA,” I was commenting on issues and inputting effort estimates into Backlog. Being able to share the screen for this local work instead of outputting to a large external display was very convenient.

For usage instructions, please refer to:

• Easy Screencasting with "join.me" is Quite Convenient | Lifehacker [Japan]
• Tried Using "join.me" Tool for Sharing Desktop Activities | BLOG | Synergy Marketing Co., Ltd.

These resources have detailed information, so please refer to them.

Screencasting was very easy and convenient. The performance wasn’t heavy and it worked smoothly, so I recommend it.

That’s all from the Gemba.