Building Efficient teams through remote working

Talk Title: Building Efficient teams through remote working
Location: Studio14 Company Workshop, UK/Lagos, Nigeria.

Take away "Remote working is not about working from home, it's about flexibility and productivity. - Shodipo Ayomide"

Transcript

1. Building Efficient teams through remote working. Shodipo Ayomide - Studio 14 Company Workshop
2. HELLO! I am Shodipo Ayomide (developerayo) Formal Lead Dev Advocate & Engineer @VanHack Founder and CEO @fremer find meat @developerayo 2
3. What is remote working?
4. Understand This: REMOTE IS NOT ABOUT WORKING FROM HOME
5. It is about FLEXIBILITY
6. Remote is not easy.
7. Remote is worth it.
8. Remote working is a totally different way of working, with different constraint and processes.
9. Remote working brings you the freedom to spend as much time as you can with your family and the places you love
10. Remote working permits a flexibility and freedom that increases your quality of life
11. Remote working increases team productivity by encouraging focusing and reducing time wastage
12. Remote working can drastically cut down company costs and expenses.
13. Talent is equally distributed around the world but opportunity is not.
14. But only if it's done well
15. Remote working is not suitable for everyone
16. Does it work?
17. Dispersed teams can actually outperform teams that are collocated. — MITSloan
18. By telecommuting, 83 percent of employees said their ability to communicate and collaborate with coworkers was the same as, if not better than, it was when working on- site. — Cisco via Help Scout
19. Dispersed teams can actually outperform teams that are collocated. — MITSloan
20. Does it work for everybody?
21. NO
22. Communication
23. Don’t use email internally unless you want to send a proposal or something.
24. Make sure every team member is at least sometimes remote -mental health
25. Time zones
26. Schedule your day wisely
27. Personality
28. Remote work is not for everyone
29. Get people that don’t need a manager to do what they have to do.
30. Remote working requires a proper and stable mindset
31. Meetups
32. Face to face team meetups are !important
33. Encourage company retreats
34. Encourage company zoom/skype or hangout meetings for sync.
35. Remote Working Tools
36. The CCAI of remote work Communication is everything Collaboration is everything Automation is everything Integration is everything
37. Communication
38. History is crucial for referral on what a team mate said, do not clear cache or history.
39. Zoom/Skype or Hangout call, if necessary.
40. No emails unless it’s a very serious proposal and requires one. If not everything else goes in the team chat.
41. Automation
42. CHAT SlackBOT GitHub BOT Meeting Scheduling BOT Voting BOT Sharing BOT
43. CODE DEPLOYMENT ZEIT NOW Netlify Serverless Surge Render
44. CODE TESTING Travis CI QUALITY OF CODE Code Climate
45. Collaboration
46. GitHub
47. GitHub code review
48. GitHub Pull Request discussion
49. GitHub Issue discussion
50. GitHub Wiki #documentation
51. GitHub Issue discussion
52. An outdated or inaccurate comment is worse than no comment at all. Always respond to your team when you are being called out and do not claim busy
53. Integration
54. Twitter Bot GitHub Bot Code Climate Bot Travic CI Bot
55. With remote work you can have more time for you.
56. Dos and Don'ts
57. DO Document everything that can be documented.
58. DO Get Together
59. DON’T Exclude team from work conversations.
60. DON’T Assume
61. DON’T Hold people from 9 - 5
62. DON’T Hold people from 9 - 5
63. Thanks! Questions? Find me @developerayo