Working From Home - Distributed Teams

Working from Home

SyncNorwich Agile August 2013

MultimapMicrosoftAxon Active

@JOHNBFAGAN

POLL

400+ employees 40 different countries 95% percent of developers working from home. ”Hire the best we could, regardless of location."

MYSQL

The creators didn’t meet until the company was acquired by Amazon in 1998.

They met for the first time at a welcome party in a hotel near Heathrow

IMDB

Marissa Mayer, Feb 2013

"to become the absolute best place to work, communication and collaboration will be important, so we need to be working side-by-side. That is why it is critical that we are all present in our offices.”

Y!

22 team members 3 Scrum teams 12 Cities 4 countries 3 continents

AXON ACTIVE

PeopleCommunicationProcessTools

4 THINGS 2 THINGS

people

network

USE YOUR NETWORKS

@Constraint(validatedBy = Location.class)

HIRING. WHY THE CONSTRAINTS?

ONE BENEFIT !COMMUTING

40% likelier to divorce when commuting longer than 45 minutes

Every 10 minutes spent commuting, an employee makes 10 percent fewer “social connections,” or interactions with friends, family and co-workers

Umea University in Sweden & Brown Univesity

1 minute equals 0.0257 minute less exercise, 0.0387 minute less food preparation, and 0.2205 minute less sleep

CO-WORKING SPACE

HAPPY TEAM THAT DELIVER

What's an awesome communication tool?

COMMUNICATION

SCRUM

PRODUCT BACKLOG

MOQUPS.COM

JIRA (GREENHOPPER + WIKI)

SPRINT PLANNING

TEAM VELOCITY

DAILY STANDUP – 30 MINS

CHATTING

BURNING

BUILDING

BREAKING

GROOMING

MEETING (FACE TO FACE)

SPRINT REVIEW & RETROSPECTIVE

QUARTERLY CONFERENCE

MAKE IT SOCIAL

We don’t have to be disconnected.

RUNNING CLUB

WALKING CLUB

MUSIC CLUB

BREAD CLUB

BEER CAN CHICKEN CLUB