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Thank you all who came to my talk today! I’m delighted to say that as part of the raffle I received over 50 ideas for remote coaching. As promised, here’s the list!
- Katrina T. – Interactive retros – example Playdoh – “build an image that describes the last sprint
- Ellen D. – try to learn their language
- Rebecca Wirfs-Brock | Agile Alliance – Show and tell in remote training ( share other students work and discuss)
- Shalini – Collins Aerospace – Stop multitasking and focus on one task at a time – add commit time to review other people’s work
- Gisela M. – Measure happiness with the decisions they make at the beginning
- Leslie k. – Bring the team together 1-2 times during the engagement
- Carlina A – we use IdeaBoardz for backlog retrospectives for remote teams
- Carlina A – We celebrate holidays with remote teams and share pictures
- Melinda S. – Virtual Happy hour
- Jim C. – Train onsite coaches and use them as co-coaches we call them Agile Champions
- Carlina – We made each person share personal things for retro to get to know each other
- Leslie K. – Remote ice breaker games
- Leslie K. Encourage video chats rather than voice
- Gabriela V. – Have standup followed by core hours (15 min then 45)
- Gabriela V. – Even in training always stop and create polls or different engagements
- Gabriela V – Slack Channel – Different topics one for sharing things outside of work and one for knowledge sharing
- Rebecca Wirfs-Brock – Review and start clear agenda before starting
- <> – Investing Having remote teams together for 1 week. Ether at the start of the projector once a year for the ongoing team.
- SEB -Short segments, six trumps (Bowman), self-paced, individual and collaborative (this is from Training from the back of the room).
- Dwight K – When you are on-site in-person spend as much time as needed to develop relationships and trust with individuals. #1 priority.
- Sim – using video conferencing
- David K – tabletop board game simulators can be used to recreate some in-person exercises.
- David K – I have had some success with web cames over physical boards.
- Gabriella – Take pictures of everyone smiling on a video call and send it on the slack channel
- Elizabeth M – Small group experiments and present learnings back to the rest
- Bill Wake – remote mob session – make sure tools ready before you begin
- <> – first 15 min for “Pets and babies” – this is the idea to show family members, either human or otherwise, at the first fifteen minutes of a meeting. Love this one!
- Melinda S – Always use cameras for all meetings
Here’s the posts from the three days I was there. I love this conference!