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Leading through Experimentation in a Distributed Agile Organization

Change is our work as agile coaches and leaders. When your teams and organizations are distributed, experimentation becomes the primary tool to aid our change navigation. As online collaboration technologies improve and we begin to understand how flexibility and choice become critical in distributed work, modeling and teaching experimentation are important for agile coaches and all leaders.

Mark Kilby
on Apr 10, 2020
Culture & Methods

Software Teams and Teamwork Trends Report Q1 2020

The Culture & Methods editors team present their take on the topics that are at the front of the technology adoption curve: how to make teams and teamwork more effective, in person or remote, some new tools and techniques, some ideas that have been around for a while and are starting to gain traction, the push for professionalism, ethical behavior and being socially and environmentally aware.

Ben Linders Douglas Talbot Evan Leybourn Craig Smith Shaaron A Alvares Rafiq Gemmail Shane Hastie
on Mar 31, 2020
Culture & Methods

Setting Up a Virtual Office for Remote Teams

Adopting a virtual office model saves a business $11,000+ annually per employee. It’s also one of the best answers to employees’ growing demands for mobility. Whether you’re considering a virtual office environment for several employees or a whole team, implement these strategies to ensure managers’ peace of mind and the top productivity of remote workers.

Angela Yurchenko
on Feb 05, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Remote Mob Programming

In the book Remote Mob Programming: At home, but not alone, Simon Harrer, Jochen Christ, and Martin Huber share their experience doing mob programming while working from home for over a year.

Ben Linders Simon Harrer Jochen Christ Martin Huber
on Feb 03, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Thinking Remote

The book Thinking Remote - inspiration for leaders and distributed teams by Pilar Orti and Maya Middlemiss provides lots of ideas for managers and leaders who are working with remote or distributed teams. It can be used as a handbook for leaders of virtual teams, helping them to deal with the leadership challenges and making the transition to remote working.

Ben Linders Pilar Orti Maya Middlemiss
on Oct 28, 2019
Culture & Methods

Strengthen Distributed Teams with Social Conversations

Yes, online meetings should result in outcomes; they should follow agendas or meeting plans and should be run efficiently. But, there is an aspect of remote team meetings that often gets overlooked—the opportunity to strengthen relationships with our team members.

Pilar Orti
on Sep 17, 2019
Culture & Methods

Remote Meetings Reflect Distributed Team Culture

Are you having problems connecting with people in your distributed meetings? Do you feel like you and your remote colleagues don’t meet goals in your meetings? The problem may not be with the meetings. It might be the culture in which you run your meetings.

Mark Kilby
on Sep 09, 2019
Culture & Methods

Can Your Meeting Kit Cut It?

Every team meets. Most run their meetings the same way their grandparents and their grandparents' grandparents did. Meeting records predating the Romans describe a leader pontificating, brief back-and-forth discussion, then a conclusion with an inconclusive bit of mumbled agreement. Meetings haven't changed much in thousands of years.

J. Elise Keith Lisette Sutherland
on Sep 03, 2019
Culture & Methods

Article Series - Remote Meetings

In this series we’ll look at how teams worldwide are successfully facilitating complex conversations, remotely. And we’ll share practical steps that you can take, right now, to upgrade the remote conversations that fill your working days.

Judy Rees
on Aug 31, 2019
Culture & Methods

Great Global Meetings: Navigating Cultural Differences

Navigating cross-cultural differences can be hard enough when team members are face-to-face, but when most communications are through some kind of technology—email, phone, IM, video, or online conferencing—it becomes infinitely more complex.

Nancy Settle-Murphy
on Aug 30, 2019
Culture & Methods

Mastering Remote Meetings: How To Get—and Keep—Your Participants Engaged

Increasingly, software development is seen as a creative, collaborative undertaking. If poor remote meetings are impeding collaboration, how much damage could that be doing?

Judy Rees
on Aug 21, 2019
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Virtual Leadership

The book Virtual Leadership: Practical Strategies for Getting the Best out of Virtual Work and Virtual Teams by Penny Pullan provides suggestions and practices for people working in or with virtual teams. It discusses leadership styles suitable for virtual or remote teams and explores what can be done to improve collaboration and communication, and engage remote participants.

Penny Pullan Ben Linders
on Jul 20, 2019