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Making Remote Teams Work

David Majda
September 16, 2023

Making Remote Teams Work

Every development team is at least partially remote these days, which presents a unique set of challenges. How do you set up a collaboration workflow? How do you manage communication and maintain team cohesion without seeing each other in person? How do you deal with the lack of social interaction and serendipity? How do you accommodate people with wildly different work and communication styles, emotional needs, and ideas about work-life balance? And what about hiring and onboarding?

Having led a remote team in a small company for six years, I've experienced these challenges first-hand. In the talk, we’ll go through them (plus a few more), and I’ll describe solutions and guidelines we’ve come up with in our team (including a few that didn’t work). The goal is to provide useful advice you can apply in your work, both as a team leader and as a team member. I would also love to use the talk as an opportunity to start a discussion and learn how others solve similar problems.

Presented at PyCon CZ 23.

Details: https://cz.pycon.org/2023/program/talks/95/

David Majda

September 16, 2023
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  1. MAKING
    REMOTE TEAMS
    WORK
    DAVID MAJDA
    @dmajda
    PyCon CZ 23 • Prague • September 16, 2023

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  2. PART 1
    PART 2
    CHALLENGES
    TIPS

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  7. PART 1
    CHALLENGES

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  9. ○ COMMUNICATION
    ○ COLLABORATION
    ○ TEAM COHESION
    ○ MOTIVATION
    ○ SOCIAL INTERACTION
    ○ EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING
    ○ WORK-LIFE BALANCE
    ○ HIRING & INTERVIEWING
    ○ ONBOARDING

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  10. ○ COMMUNICATION
    ○ COLLABORATION
    ○ TEAM COHESION
    ○ MOTIVATION
    ○ SOCIAL INTERACTION
    ○ EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING
    ○ WORK-LIFE BALANCE
    ○ HIRING & INTERVIEWING
    ○ ONBOARDING

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  12. ACTIVATION ENERGY

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  13. ACTIVATION ENERGY

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  14. ACTIVATION ENERGY
    BANDWIDTH

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  15. ACTIVATION ENERGY
    BANDWIDTH

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  16. ACTIVATION ENERGY
    BANDWIDTH
    LATENCY

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  17. PART 2
    TIPS

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  18. HAVE
    FULLY REMOTE
    SETUP
    #1

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  19. ESTABLISH RHYTHM
    #2

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  20. EMBRACE ASYNC
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  21. ×

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  22. SET CLEAR
    COMM EXPECTATIONS
    #4
    #4

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  23. FIND
    COMM MODES
    THAT WORK
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  24. EMBRACE
    REAL-WORLD
    MEETINGS
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  25. ×

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  26. TAKE CARE
    OF PEOPLE
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  27. SELECT FOR
    INDEPENDENCE
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  28. EMPLOY
    PEOPLE READERS
    #9
    #9

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  29. ONBOARD
    THOROUGHLY
    #10

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  30. THE END
    DAVID MAJDA
    @dmajda

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