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Visibility Shift in Distributed Teams
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Working on a boring project remotely is extremely hard
Distributed meetings are extremely boring
Group decisions are better than expert advice
Working in a distributed way, like using Scrum, makes issues more visible
- How working remotely looks like?
- Why?
- Changeless
Working remotely makes things more transparent
Co-founder & Agile Manager
@pawelwrzeszcz
Software development yoga
6+ yrs experience
How would you feel
if your boss told you
that starting from Monday
you will be working remotely?
This talk is not about
proving that co-location is bad
Working Remotely?
Thank you!
Campfire
Working as a Team
Paweł Wrzeszcz
pawel@softwaremill.pl
http://softwaremill.com
@pawelwrzeszcz
Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
source: bob.mcwhirter.org
Visibility Shift
in
Distributed Teams
Brainstorming
Savings
Diversity
Aggregation
Independence
Decentralization
Paweł Wrzeszcz
Brainstorming & Planning - Technically
- Rockwell International
- Lockheed
- Martin Marietta
- Morton Thiokol
- Writing
- wikis, Google Docs
- Colours
- On-line corkboards
- UserVoice, IdeaScale
- Estimating - planningpoker.com
- Brainstorming can be asynchronous
Opportunities
Work "abroad"
Work with the best
Variety
Meetings
Why?
Talking about work
source: elitemom.net
source: rocksolidfinance.com
Hours vs. progress
1 to 1 Conversations
Daily Scrum
- Video
- Tools
- Skype, Google Hangouts, BigBlueButton, Mumble, TeamSpeak
- Still room for improvement
- Quality
- Linux
- Growing number of people
Office
Home
... and useless.
Being there = working
working = ?
Producing visible value !
commits
wiki edits
notifications are important
moving tasks
Communication
Asynchronous Communication
Communication Channels
- lunch
- getting into "flow"
- asking for help
- knowledge sharing
Being at Work
The same channel used internally and with a Client
Concerns
http://zachholman.com/posts/how-github-works-asynchronous/
"I could never force myself
to get something done
while sitting at home"
Functional
vs.
cross-functional teams
source: wiseguysynth.com/larry
"You must feel as if you were at work all the time"
Pain: distracting notifications
Work vs. life
"Our employees would just browse Facebook"
Advice:
Constantly improve the way you communicate
- Getting down to work
- Separation
Daily routine
Separation
"I have to go in person to make sure people are working properly"
Announce start/finish
Each team member
Being more proactive
2 levels of improvements/learning
Management 3.0
ant colony - independence (40)
Coupling & Interfaces
Organizations & teams are like components
[img] coupling
- Co-located team
- tightly coupled
- many fat interfaces
- Distributed team
- loosely coupled
- easier to discover and define interfaces
idea by Jamie Allsop, agile-trac.org
Flexible working hours
absence
source: geekpreneur.com
Self-organization
push vs. pull management