The world has changed significantly over the last few weeks and many of us find ourselves working from home, potentially for an extended period. There have been many useful articles in recent days with tips on how to work from home. Whilst that’s useful we thought we would outline some of the techniques that we have built up over the last 10 years, not just on how to work from home but how to create a high-performing distributed agile delivery team. Here are our top five tips:
#1 – Ban Conference Calls
OK, this one probably goes without saying. However, when we start working with a new client as their agile delivery partner, we often find that they struggle to run agile meetings over a video conference. It’s essentially to be able to see people, wave at them and have a bit of small talk at the start of a call. It’s not time wasting. It’s a vital part of allowing a distributed team to bond and make friendships. Awkward conference phone systems make this impossible. Instead, use Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Hangouts, Zoom, or whatever video conferencing tool you prefer.
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