Working Successfully In Agile With Remote Team Members

 

In response to COVID-19, most workers need to work remotely, often from home. For several organizations, the ability to work together in a remote environment during this global event has changed their perception that agile teams must be in the office and has already proved that employees can be very productive in work from home.

Working successfully in agile is a challenge for many development teams. This can be even more complicated when one or more team members are remote. The main question that arises is how to ensure that the team remains agile and productive despite the geographical divisions.

The following outline will provide you with some best practices for managing remote teams:

- Establishing Clear Communication Channels

- Setting Up Team Collocation When Possible

- Sharing Tasks Effectively Across Geographies

Detailed View About Working With Remote Agile Teams

The term "new normal" has been used by some industry leaders to describe the economic situation. In some cases, this may mean cutting back on office space, reducing second-largest costs after personnel (work), and having a positive environmental impact by sending fewer cars on the road each day.

But if we want to create a new reality with remote workers, we must learn from today's problems and create a vision for the future that will enable us to use remote employees as much as possible. In addition, everyone in the company needs to transition into the current era while simultaneously maintaining a level of productivity and quality that will allow us to offer our employers innovative new business solutions.

When working in an Agile Team environment, it's important to understand the value of face-to-face communication as well as day-to-day collaboration. This is the core principle of agility. However, experience shows that agile teams can thrive and perform best even when some/all team members are not working in the same physical space.

Whether teams work in person or remotely, Agile best practices such as setting goals when planning your iteration, using the Daily Stand-up to ensure alignment, and providing stories during iterations. For example, for people who don't work in the same physical space, it can be harder to have face-to-face collaboration activities and to know what others are working on.

Later in this article, we'll share the experiences as well as other successful models and SAFe community recommendations for staying flexible when working remotely.

 

1.      Solving Time Zone Differences: Multiple time zones create unique challenges that must be carefully considered.

2.       Create an effective workplace: To help team members work at home, make sure they have the infrastructure & technology they need.

3.      Supportive team collaboration: Have targeted activities that can help increase communication and build trust throughout the team.

4.      Conduct online meetings: Some information and tips that might come in handy during the event.

Summarize

Working in an agile environment with remote team members is possible but can be more difficult than with co-located teams. With a commitment to agility, teamwork, and continual improvement, Agile teams can adapt. This article summarizes some of the changes that result from the teleworking experience. For example, it is harder for distributed teams to have face-to-face collaboration activities and it is harder for distributed teams to know what the other person is doing.

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