Remote Working / Teams
Teams of 1 are the best teams, and 1 of the most hard to create
Remote is a strategic advantage to some companies and poison for others
Remote work needs discipline
TODOs
- Making remote teams meet once a month/quarter
- Daily stand-up
- Evening syncups
- Fixed set of tasks
- Everything should be written down and organized
Benefits
- Hiring firing is easy
- Transfer operational knowledge
- Over paid vs under paid
- Really need good managers to take over team
- Creating feedback loop for every process
Remote working tips
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Default to action (if remote and waiting for someone respond, then default to action, take a decision and move on)
"As far as life philosophies go, "The right time is right now" isn't a bad one. Most of us would benefit from a greater bias toward action.
If you move fast, you can try more things. And if you try more things, you're likely to find something that works for you."
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Over-communicate where possible
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Make yourself available
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Prioritize face-to-face conversations
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Offer space to de-stress
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Share strategies to help your local community
Distributed Team (Trust) - Values (Gitlab) (CREDIT)
- Collaboration
- Results
- Efficiency
- Diversity & Inclusion
- Iteration
- Transparency - Record by default
- Record everything, cannot afford to train people in meetings
- self-paced learning and discovery
- send links to avoid wasting valuable time holding meetings or getting interrupted by same questions
- access the best version of the information
To complement the self-assessment of the stress continuum, McGladrey recently piloted a system she calls "3-3-3" - basically an informal check-in three days, three weeks, and three months after a significant event. At the three-day mark, the idea is to gauge the mental state of participants at the time of the event and identify some red flags for bad outcomes. These check-ins can also identify people who need more support."
Debbie Lovich: 3 tips for leaders to get the future of work right | TED
https://blog.trello.com/boundaries-to-start-setting-with-your-team
https://blog.trello.com/conflict-management-strategies-for-hybrid-teams
The Future of Remote Work | Stay SaaSy
Remote Working Approaches That Worked (And Some That Didn’t) • Charles Humble • GOTO 2023 - YouTube