OLN Open Space 001-Malood Ceccarelli-Remote Work In Agile

1. REMOTE WORK IN AGILE I N T H E M I D D L E O F A N A G I L E T R A N S F O R M AT I O N BY: M O L O O D C E C C A R E L L I

2. Molood Ceccarelli MOLOOD CECCARELLI R e m o t e Wo r k E x p e r t a n d A g i l e C o a c h Fo u n d e r a n d C E O o f R e m o t e Fo r e v e r @remoteforever @remoteforever RemoteForever.com

3. Molood Ceccarelli Where do you go to get real work done?

4. Molood Ceccarelli ”the office during the work days is where I am most productive!”

5. Molood Ceccarelli ”the office during the work days is where I am most productive!” Said no one

6. 3 in every 4 CFO is takingtheir company remote

7. Molood Ceccarelli REMOTE WORK IS THE FUTURE OF WORK Distributed companies are becoming agile Agile companies are becoming distributed

8. Molood Ceccarelli REMOTE WORK IS THE FUTURE OF WORK Distributed companies are becoming agile REALITY Agile companies are becoming distributed

9. Molood Ceccarelli BENEFITS OF REMOTE WORK FOR EMPLOYERS • Cost Savings ($10m/year) • 77% increased Productivity and Efﬁciency • 30% accomplished more in less time • 42% of remote workers feel they’re just as connected with colleagues • 10% feel even more connected • Access to top talent anywhere in the world

10. Molood Ceccarelli BENEFITS OF REMOTE WORK FOR EMPLOYEES • Cost savings (over $5k/year) • Increased Productivity and Efﬁciency • More motivated workers • Access to all employers • High performance due to more freedom • 45% of remote workers are getting more sleep • 35% are getting more physical exercise • 42% are eating healthier • 53% reported reduced stress • 40% are able to do at least half of their work from a mobile device

11. Molood Ceccarelli Work is what we do, not a place we go to. -- Jurgen Appelo

12. Molood Ceccarelli AGILE TRANSFORMATION & REMOTE WORK CULTURE TOOLS & PROCESSES OVER INDIVIDUALS AND INTERACTION

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14. Molood Ceccarelli Choose the right type of communication for the purpose you are trying to achieve •Decision making •Resolving conﬂicts •Quick synchronisation •Collaborative problem solving •Socializing and Celebration •Coaching •Sharing information •Presenting data and ﬁndings •Sharing and gathering ideas and opinions •Gathering data (of any kind) •Sequential collaboration (ex. creating a document) Synchronous Asynchronous

15. Can you solve the problem without a meeting? If your answer is yes, don’t add a “but” to it. Just solve the problem without a goddamn meeting. -- Molood Ceccarelli

16. Molood Ceccarelli AGILE TRANSFORMATION & REMOTE WORK CULTURE TOOLS & PROCESSES OVER INDIVIDUALS AND INTERACTION COMPREHENSIVE DOCUMENTATION OVER WORKING SOFTWARE

17. Molood Ceccarelli Meetings, meetings and more meetings instead of creating working valuable software • First we meet to create the product vision, roadmap, product backlog • Then we meet to make changes to product vision, roadmap, backlog • And to continuously reprioritize what is on the backlog • We update the ”status” of our work every day in the tool • We also meet to tell each other that we have changed the status • We use chat and comments in our tool to synchronize • Somehow despite how much we meet and communicate and synchronize, our architecture keeps getting worse and we keep introducing more bugs. • It could be because we don’t have enough time to write test code, but we do have a CI pipeline, so there’s that. • We sometimes must have a “code freeze” or “release” to do some more integration testing, yet our software crashes often. • What’s penetration testing?! Security….hmmmm I don’t know who takes care of that. • But we have very valuable retrospective meetings. • Our action points are usually “have a meeting to improve the way we run one of our meetings such as planning” • But you know it’s really difﬁcult to do anything well because we are a distributed team in different time zones. We always blame remote work or remote workers when we do not communicate effectively

18. • Stop trying to copy collocated behaviors. • You must think and behave differently in distributed teams. • Invest in your Ops, security, CI/CD pipeline, automation (test, deploy, etc), and create enough documentation, and make your meetings valuable. • Improve the processes that empower individuals to communicate.

19. Molood Ceccarelli AGILE TRANSFORMATION & REMOTE WORK CULTURE TOOLS & PROCESSES OVER INDIVIDUALS AND INTERACTION COMPREHENSIVE DOCUMENTATION OVER WORKING SOFTWARE CONTRACT NEGOTIATION OVER CUSTOMER COLLABORATION

22. Molood Ceccarelli •Collaboration is NOT a Goal. It’s a means to a goal. •Organizations don’t collaborate. People within and among organizations do. •Work Together with your customer instead of making fixed-scope fixed-deadline contracts. •Define your goal and achieve it together. •Experiment and learn.

23. Molood Ceccarelli AGILE TRANSFORMATION & REMOTE WORK CULTURE TOOLS & PROCESSES OVER INDIVIDUALS AND INTERACTION COMPREHENSIVE DOCUMENTATION OVER WORKING SOFTWARE FOLLOWING A PLAN OVER RESPONDING TO CHANGE CONTRACT NEGOTIATION OVER CUSTOMER COLLABORATION

24. Molood Ceccarelli Remote work has been the reality of work for years. So how come your company is suddenly remote?

25. Molood Ceccarelli It’s human nature not to seek out a replacement until you need one.

26. Molood Ceccarelli ASK IF YOU REALLY NEED TO WORK A CERTAIN WAY!

27. Molood Ceccarelli REFLECT AND ADJUST YOUR WAYS OF WORKING Reference: https://cucumber.io/blog/2018/06/20/inclusive-benefits-of-mob-programming

28. Molood Ceccarelli DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY DO NOT REPLICATE THE OFFICE

29. Molood Ceccarelli More meetings (or chats) will not magically solve your problems with ineffective communication. When Working Remotely, you must fundamentally change the way you think about communication. Invest in learning the #mindset and #skillset for #RemoteWork. If you just wing it, you’ll harm your business.

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