Office Optional: Best Practices for Distributed Agile Teams

What are the keys to build a healthy and high-performing distributed team? Is it possible to build a true sense of community, have team members feel appreciated, and help foster a spirit of overall job satisfaction?

Distributed (remote) teams offer many challenges, as well as unique opportunities, to reimagine the very nature of how we work.

In this session we will explore the topics:

• Collaborating with distributed teams, both internally and with clients
• Choosing the best tools for video calls, group chat, brainstorming and design
• Exploring distributed Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Improving remote team engagement and performance
• Building a sense of community and opportunities for learning and growth
• Best practices for to balancing work and home life
• Managing conflict and issues
• Finding mission, meaning and significance at work

This session will include both a presentation and a facilitated open discussion to elicit the wisdom of the participants.