DevOps Enterprise Summit45
First question: With the advent of remote work, how can technology leaders best enable collaboration among their teams?
Thomas A. McGonagle
Be Present, Be Honest, and Be True to Themselves
Paula Thrasher
Clear goals and context are more important than ever. Leadership sets the vision
Marcello Marrocos ∞
Be open to new ideas, experimentation, and respect each ones individual needs.
Chris
Providing more opportunities for asynchronous work. Tooling has been super important for us, Slack has been an amazing enabler for us.
Ben Grinnell
its made lots of things easier. Most meetings were difficult to collaborate properly with half the group in the room and half on VC. Now, no-one has an excuse and everyone can contribute
Dave Mangot
in office work is generally synchronous, but the best distributed teams learn to work asynchronously. That's why things like Slack work so well. Sync work still has it's place, but teams need to learn to "loosely coupled" collaboration!
Marcello Marrocos ∞
It's always good to remember that its not a simple "remote work" situation, but in the middle of a pandemic with so many other things to handle and worry.
Paula Thrasher
There is new opportunity to collaborate - teams are no longer geography defined, and for many organizations equalizing that silo has helped
Matt K. Parker
Listen to them. Front-line software makers are facing a whole new world of challenges. Work life and family life have collided like never before, and support for them begins with empathy.
Ben Grinnell
on thing I didn't expect, people have become a lot more punctual - can't blame the traffic ;-)
Stephen
Connecting the right people in the right way. We do a lot of pair programming, small group sync-ups, breakout slack channels. These are useful in ordinary times, but particularly so noow.
Dave Mangot
@Ben_Grinnell at the same time, we need to allow them to be LESS punctual, because lord knows what some people are going through at home with children, pets, etc.
Jonathan Smart
clear outcomes. Ensure that regular 'wellness breaks' are being built in, to step away from a day of Zoom. And regular check ins esp. with those in less fortunate circumstances, for example living and working from one room
Paula Thrasher
@Ben_Grinnell I agree - everyone remote is actually tenfold easier than half and half (or worse - everyone in person and one on the phone)
