War Room Collaboration Across the Internet Canyon

WordCamp NYC 2015 • #wcnyc • @anthonydpaul

typical agency

office of ADG Creative

work from home

(falsehood in my mind)

fear 1 of 3 = culture

office of ADG Creative

fear 2 of 3 = my value

office of ADG Creative

fear 3 of 3 = natural collaboration

office of ADG Creative

There and back again…Universal lessons on communicating better

Anthony D PaulDirector of User Experience

@anthonydpaul

digital “whiteboarding”

overview of tools

culture + my value natural collaboration

culture = emotional connection

body language

gestures

intonation

Google Hangouts

front-facing camera ipevo (crane camera) snowball mic

Skitch

my value = shared task awareness

decentralized proj. mgmt.

captured conversations

prioritized venues

project schedule in GitHub

task prioritization in GitHub

task assignments in GitHub

macro tasks in GitHub

micro tasks in GitHub

sketches in GitHub

filtering my tasks in GitHub

my tasks in GitHub

Slack

Google Office

natural collaboration = all of the above

organic / unplanned

improvisational

multi-modal / tactile

Example 1 - Flow Diagrams

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1FIq-t-1tZHKE7QECazdGJUsWsy21oEKC9JWxQBNbx2s/edit?usp=sharing

Example 2 - Remote Interview Tool

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1EWPylj-Lf_5PVwN0n9-ZRRuOmbfgLT1QknAlU6YET6U/edit?usp=sharing

Example 3 - Sketching Studio

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vwCvjvxuYFMXs_T_iY3K1v8ZUB-XfLX12EDTd_xRvE0/edit?usp=sharing

Example 4 - Wireframes with IXD Concepts

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1QYCTAHNOfyuMtVpnJoGlGsGfyh3DGMOT67Dsmk9WvAI/edit?usp=sharing

1. What type of content do we need to interact with?

2. What type of interaction do we need to facilitate?

lesson learned = break your tools

Year Without Pants, Scott Berkunhttp://is.gd/YUAw1C

Why Remote Teams Are the Future (and How to Make Them Work) http://www.helpscout.net/blog/virtual-teams/

WeWorkRemotely https://weworkremotely.com

WordPress Slack https://make.wordpress.org/chat/

(my site and blog) http://adp.rocks or http:// .ws

Thank you

@anthonydpaul