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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

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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
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@remoteforever
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Where do you go to
get real work done?

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”the office during the
work days is where I
am most productive!”

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

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3 in every 4 CFO is takingtheir company remote

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REMOTE WORK IS THE FUTURE OF WORK
Distributed
companies are
becoming agile
Agile companies
are becoming
distributed

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REMOTE WORK IS THE FUTURE OF WORK
Distributed
companies are
becoming agile
REALITY
Agile companies
are becoming
distributed

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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

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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

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

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AGILE TRANSFORMATION
&
REMOTE WORK CULTURE
TOOLS & PROCESSES OVER
INDIVIDUALS AND INTERACTION

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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

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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

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

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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

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• 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.

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

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•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.

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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

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

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

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ASK IF YOU REALLY NEED
TO WORK A CERTAIN WAY!

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

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DO THINGS
DIFFERENTLY
DO NOT REPLICATE THE
OFFICE

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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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THANK YOU
MOLOOD CECCARELLI
@remoteforever
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