Good Morning My Remote Team - Goodbye My Remote Team
Communication while working with remote teams is a greater challenge than while working with co-located teams.
This is why GOOD Scrum Masters need to focus double on anything (tools, meetings, structure, format, talks, etc..), while GREAT Scrum Masters learn to cherish the power of SMALL things.
In my experience as an Agile Coach I learned you need to make more use of the "s" size approaches:
LESS is more - take less in the Sprint to achieve more
Keep It Simple - MVP rules
Little Strokes Fell Great Oaks - Customer feedback (a small input from your customer you oversaw can ruin your whole project from roots)
Even the GREATEST oaks started as a SMALL seed - start small, grow on the way
One SMALL thing I used to do with one remote team I worked with was to say Hello in the morning on Chat and Goodbye in the evening. Small, but strong. Not only did it help me build a great BOND with the people that were distributed, but it lead to greater TRUST with minimal effort.
You come in the office in the morning and you salute your colleagues. It is so normal, that you just don't realize you are only saluting your co-located colleagues (Shame! Shame!). What if you say Hello to your colleague in India, or China, or the one working from home? How do you think he feels? Try to build trust in remote teams through all the ways, not just the standard ways.
How many of you salute your co-located colleagues when coming to work? Everybody! How many of you salute your other colleagues not co-located? Hmm...none. Are they also your colleagues? I guess so :).
You can find another SMALL tip on Building New Teams - How Do Your Friends Calls You?
This was one of my experiments I loved doing.
What about you, do you experiment? Do you have a backlog of experiments? Why not?
Happy experimenting day!
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This is why GOOD Scrum Masters need to focus double on anything (tools, meetings, structure, format, talks, etc..), while GREAT Scrum Masters learn to cherish the power of SMALL things.
In my experience as an Agile Coach I learned you need to make more use of the "s" size approaches:
LESS is more - take less in the Sprint to achieve more
Keep It Simple - MVP rules
Little Strokes Fell Great Oaks - Customer feedback (a small input from your customer you oversaw can ruin your whole project from roots)
Even the GREATEST oaks started as a SMALL seed - start small, grow on the way
One SMALL thing I used to do with one remote team I worked with was to say Hello in the morning on Chat and Goodbye in the evening. Small, but strong. Not only did it help me build a great BOND with the people that were distributed, but it lead to greater TRUST with minimal effort.
You come in the office in the morning and you salute your colleagues. It is so normal, that you just don't realize you are only saluting your co-located colleagues (Shame! Shame!). What if you say Hello to your colleague in India, or China, or the one working from home? How do you think he feels? Try to build trust in remote teams through all the ways, not just the standard ways.
How many of you salute your co-located colleagues when coming to work? Everybody! How many of you salute your other colleagues not co-located? Hmm...none. Are they also your colleagues? I guess so :).
You can find another SMALL tip on Building New Teams - How Do Your Friends Calls You?
This was one of my experiments I loved doing.
What about you, do you experiment? Do you have a backlog of experiments? Why not?
Happy experimenting day!
Do you want to read more on Remote Agility - Remote Agility - Work out-loud
* Icon made by Freepic from www.flaticon.com