Taking a break from book writing today, I saw on Twitter there was a conversation in the open space at Scrum Gathering Minneapolis (#SGMSP18). For those of us who have been working remotely for years, there are actually several good […]
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What’s the Secret Joy of Working Remote?
While speaking recently at a conference, I realized two important things about the nature of remote work. First, I choose to work remotely. Second, many of the people who work remotely, particularly in large organizations, did not choose this way […]
Rocking the Global Scrum Gathering #SGFLA with a Community of Volunteers and Slack
Here I describe how we quickly formed, stormed and normed so our volunteers could out perform expectations at Global Scrum Gathering Orlando.
Forming a Community of Volunteers at the Global Scrum Gathering Orlando #SGFLA
It’s been a little over a week since the Global Scrum Gathering in Orlando and our Agile Florida Slack community is still buzzing. The buzz is mostly from our volunteers! The April 2016 Global Scrum Gathering was the first time […]
Connect for Community in Distributed Teams
Late in 2015, I participated in a great discussion with Ryan Ripley and David Horowitz on distributed agile teams on the Agile For Humans podcast. In that discussion, I mentioned “the importance of explicitly encouraging communication in the team; otherwise […]
InfoQ Interview: Distributed teams and distributed user groups
While at Agile2015, InfoQ interviewed me and some of my AgileFlorida.com colleagues and you can now see the InfoQ interview and transcript (25 min). In the interview, we talk about our distributed network of user groups and how we collaborate. A […]
For distributed agile teams, tools come last
Having worked with a number of distributed agile teams over the years, I’m often asked what is the best tool to use. Many people want to find the one tool that will allow their distributed team to work just like […]
Why You Want a BackChannel in Distributed Meetings
When I started facilitating my first distributed meetings, I ran into a problem that many encounter: my primary collaboration tool would fail. It usually involved one person “losing connection” or in some cases the whole collaboration software system crashing for […]
Remotely Agile: The Buddy System
Over the last 10 years, while learning how agile methodologies can work in different industries and organizations, I also discovered how I could help distributed teams work as if they were face-to-face teams. So I am starting a series of […]