Virtual Working / Distributed Teams: Is WFH the new Normal?

[andycleff]

So… events being canceled. Travel curtailed. Time to crank up the virtual not distant knob…

Many here have been doing “remote” for some time - like @mkilby

We’ve got some posts already:

• Story Refining with Distributed TeamProcesses and ToolsJul '17 - Hi friends, I am a ScrumMaster working with two teams, most of whom are in India with the team leads, product owners, and some others onshore. My challenge is that refining meetings are us pulling …
• Workshop for new agile teamsWho can helpJul '19 - Hello All, We are conducting series of workshop for few agile teams who are new to agile adoption. One of the workshop we are conducting is on capacity planning and relative estimation. However, du…
• What is the real thing that slow down your team workflow?PodcastsJan '19 - There are many reasons that cause a delay for a project, it due to specific situations. But is there a tricky thing to slow down your workflow, that always happen in most of your projects? What is …
• Retrospectives in Distributed Teams - Requirements for a ToolProcesses and ToolsNov '17 - After running several evaluations of tools, which are supposed to be used for retrospectives in distributed teams, I wonder if anyone is aware of the requirements for an adequate tool. ScatterSpoke…

And adding to it:

Books

• From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams: Collaborate to Deliver
• Work Together Anywhere

Websites

• Virtual Not Distant
• Collaboration Superpowers

Podcasts

Series

• Collaboration Superpowers
• Virtual Not Distant

Podcast Episodes

• Agile Uprising Podcast: From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams with Johanna Rothman and Mark Kilby
• Agile Uprising Podcast: Work Together Anywhere with Lisette Sutherland

Tools

• GroupMap.com
• ScatterSpoke.com
• LeanCoffeeTable.com
• Zoom Webinars (Added cost)
• Collaboration Virtual Meeting Cards

And what else?

[JayH]

For y’all SAFeies…

Distributed PI Planning - Scaled Agile Framework

[andycleff]

Remote Resources during the Corona Virus - Collaboration Superpowers

[JayH]

All Remote

[JayH]

Foster the Human Connection in Remote Work — 5 Small Ideas

[tgalloway]

Thank you for sharing things you all are reading around the WFH topic. I think WFH is going to be big for at least the next couple of months and who knows beyond that. Definitely a world shift due to what’s happening. Then again if this goes away the world tends to forget till the next time it happens. I hope everyone is staying safe and learning a lot of new ways to WFH!

[JayH]

Timely advice - remote working from the trenches

[andycleff]

Lena Ross and I put together this last weekend:

http://www.andycleff.com/ponderfy/

A tool to nudge our mindsets. To encourage us to pause and think about what we’ve accomplished, how we perceive the world around us, and what we have the potential to achieve. These prompts are more than just conversation starters - they are mindfulness hacks.

[tgalloway]

Cool @andycleff! Thank you sharing the mindfulness hacks!

[tgalloway]

Not completely related but sorta so gonna ask folks here. What are you and/or your teams using for a virtual chat application during these wonderful times. For example are you using slack, etc. etc. Just curious what everyone is using and what your opinion is.

I had to use google chat as an org today due to another tool being down and that was not the most pleasant of experiences.

[andycleff]

Slack
Zoom

We had Sococo going, but stopped due to having to shave expensess

[JayH]

We use Skype and Webex. Webex is garbage, but I’m not sure if it’s how our enterprise set it up. Zoom is working infinitely better.

[tgalloway]

We have webex as well…and I concur it is complete and utter garbage so I don’t think it’s just your enterprise @JayH. We started using Google Meet (or Hangout or whatever it’s call) for our video calls and that works great. General Google Chat is all that sucks.

Zoom is effectively banned in our org I think.

Thank you both for sharing.