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Effective Remote Teams

Effective Remote Teams

Spontaneous presentation at SoCraCan Las Palmas 2018

Danny Preussler

April 13, 2018
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  1. Effective Remote Teams
    @PreusslerBerlin
    SoCraCan 2018

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  2. Our situation, Android team:
    • 2 in Berlin
    • 1 in Sczcecin, 2 Lublin, 1 Wroclaw
    • 1 dev in New York
    • 1 QA in Minsk
    • Scrum Master, PO, QA in New York
    • Later: more devs from Canada, LA, New York

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  3. Get to know each other!

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  4. Tools
    • Slack
    • Customize!
    • Jira + CI integration
    • Screenhero

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  5. Asychronous communication
    • Don’t expect answer
    • Labels in Github PR
    tiny, big, urgent
    approved, needs_rebase, dont_merge, question, recheck

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  6. Have a backup plan
    • If Slack video chat does not work, be ready to move to Hangout or
    Skype.
    • Be pragmatic and don’t spend too much time in trying to fix the tool.

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  7. Feel the pain
    • If larger team in one spot:
    every one needs to work from home once a week!

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  8. Tech standups
    • Daily between 10 and 45min

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  9. Face to Face meetings
    • Try to meet every x
    weeks
    • Give isolated team
    members a presence
    in the room!
    • Remote teams need
    this investment!

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  10. Remember the manifesto
    • Individuals and interactions over processes
    and tools:
    • Dont rely on specific tool
    • Be pragmatic
    • Working software over comprehensive
    documentation
    • Don't write specifications that you would not
    write for a local team.

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  11. Timezones
    • Split morning standups
    • Document decisions
    • Don’t delay what you would not delay without i.e. PRs
    • Might be hard to follow up on Slack
    • Split teams
    • Trust

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  12. Have fun
    http://blog.viacom.tech/2017/04/07/effective-remote-teams/

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