This document provides a remote work starter kit to help teams establish healthy and effective remote work practices. It includes sections on principles for remote work, a remote work canvas for teams to map out their specific practices, and habits and templates around key areas like communication, roles, resources, workflow and meetings. The kit emphasizes experimentation and review of practices to help remote teams develop what works best for their unique context over copying practices from elsewhere. Templates and guides are provided to help teams establish structure and rituals around areas like team check-ins, communication plans, role boards and meeting facilitation.
“The research is clear: happy workers are more productive workers.“ says the founder of Management 3.0, Jurgen Appelo.
Management 3.0 is a revolution in modern management, currently happening in 27 countries and redefining the definition of leadership with management as a responsibility of the group. It is the future of management, which is all about doing the right thing for your team, involving everyone in improving the system and fostering employee engagement.
In this session, you will get an insight into how to manage the system, not the people. This is not only relevant for managers, but for everyone who is concerned about their organization.
About the author:
Stefan is an IT professional who was a Project Manager before encountering Agile Methodologies and recently Management 3.0. He is keen on introducing Management 3.0 as well as Agile Leadership to companies and believes that it will make their employees happier.
Stefan is a certified Management 3.0 facilitator and licensed Scrum Master.
The Productivity Cure: How To Diagnose And Treat Your Team’s Key Productivity...MetaCommunications
In this brief, practical deck, you’ll learn about the three most common ailments sapping your creative or marketing team’s productivity and the managerial medicine you need to treat them. Peak team health is just around the corner with The Productivity Cure!
Anti-Patterns are like patterns, only more informative. With anti-patterns you will first see what patterns reoccur in "bad" retrospectives and then you will see how to avoid, or remedy, the situation.
Based on her experience with facilitating retrospectives, join Aino for an entertaining and informative presentation on the anti-patterns she has seen and how to overcome the problems. We also encourage the audience to chip-in with their experiences or questions along the way.
More details:
https://confengine.com/agile-india-2019/proposal/8342/retrospective-anti-patterns
Conference link: https://2019.agileindia.org
Five people at one computer? How can that possibly be productive?
While this seems like a reasonable question, it's not easily answered - until we begin to understand the power of flow.
Mob Programming grew from the quest of one team to learn how to work well together. Once we started We almost immediately noticed that working this way provided better results in a variety of ways:
We were getting more done, and they were the more important thing
The quality of our work was increasing dramatically
Our Knowledge, skills, and capabilities were improving rapidly
And all while we were having a lot of fun as well!
While we noticed these benefits and more, and it was clear this was in a large part due to working well together throughout the day - we didn't have an understanding of why this was working so wonderfully for us.
A hint came early on when we recognized we were achieving a one-piece flow - but we didn't realize the importance of this until we started exploring the meaning and power of "flow".
In this presentation, we'll share the results of that exploration, and see if we can get a better understanding of Mob Programming and the power of flow.
More details:
https://confengine.com/agile-india-2019/proposal/8275/mob-programming-and-the-power-of-flow
Conference link: https://2019.agileindia.org
Break the mold and boost your organization with Enterprise Social Systems!Agile Austria Conference
During the Agile Austria Conference 2017. Discover how to apply Enterprise Social Systems to find solutions for many of the challenges your company is facing.
Speaker: Erich Bühler
Op 21 januari heeft alweer de vierde Scrum Round Table met als thema ‘Team Maturity' plaatsgevonden. Onder leiding van senior ALM Consultant en Scrum Master Jasper Gilhuis van Delta-N is er gediscussieerd over de het toepassen en gebruik van Team Maturity modellen in de praktijk.
Ontwerpen Team Maturity Model
Ter start van de Round Table heeft Jasper een korte uiteenzetting gedaan van wat er aan modellen bekend is en wat er aan Als praktische invulling van de Round Table zijn de deelnemers over twee groepen verdeeld, waarbij deze groepen zijn we gestart met het opstellen van een model.
Voor het ontwerpen van het model waren een drietal uitgangspunten meegegeven;
- Doel van de metric, welk proces moet deze ondersteunen, waar richt deze zich op.
- Measure, welke informatie / gegevens willen we meten.
- Indicatoren, wat zijn mogelijke oorzaken van een positief dan wel negatief effect.
Onderwerpen welke door de groepen naar voren zijn gekomen zijn;
- Team Agility
- Added Business Value
- Definition of Done
- Agile Estimations
- Kennis deling
Metric: Definition of Done;
- Wat is de review ratio van de Definition of Done?
- Is de DOD compliant?
o Is deze up to date en wordt deze toegepast?
o Wordt hiervan afgeweken onder ‘druk’ van de organisatie?
o Is er voldoende kennis bij de Agile Team Members
Ervaringen met modellen in de praktijk
Tijdens de opdracht kwam naar voren dat het maken en hanteren van een model niet eenvoudig is. Het is een tijdrovend proces en er zijn allerlei facetten van modellen die besproken werden. Verschillende invalshoeken van de deelnemers zorgde voor mooie discussies.
Binnen de modellen varieerden de focusgebieden van deze van team leden niveau tot organisatie scope.
Retrospective
Ter afsluiting van de middag hebben we een korte Retrospective gehouden. Tijdens deze ronde hebben we geconcludeerd dat er niet een model is wat van toepassing is op elke team of organisatie.
Belangrijke conclusie is dat veel van de modellen erg subjectief zijn en niet alles in cijfers uit te drukken valt.
Hieronder enkele reacties van deelnemers over deze Round Table:
“Leerzaam, levendige discussie.”
“Leuk!.”
“Herkenning van situatie”
“Moeilijk meetbaar maken”
“Meer model gedacht”
The Importance Of A Team Charter | AND DigitalAND Digital
Finding it a challenge to get into a remote rhythm with your team? A team charter can be extremely valuable for distributed teams.
Find out how a team charter can help you determine what is important to you as a team and clarify how your team wants to work together to achieve their objectives.
“The research is clear: happy workers are more productive workers.“ says the founder of Management 3.0, Jurgen Appelo.
Management 3.0 is a revolution in modern management, currently happening in 27 countries and redefining the definition of leadership with management as a responsibility of the group. It is the future of management, which is all about doing the right thing for your team, involving everyone in improving the system and fostering employee engagement.
In this session, you will get an insight into how to manage the system, not the people. This is not only relevant for managers, but for everyone who is concerned about their organization.
About the author:
Stefan is an IT professional who was a Project Manager before encountering Agile Methodologies and recently Management 3.0. He is keen on introducing Management 3.0 as well as Agile Leadership to companies and believes that it will make their employees happier.
Stefan is a certified Management 3.0 facilitator and licensed Scrum Master.
The Productivity Cure: How To Diagnose And Treat Your Team’s Key Productivity...MetaCommunications
In this brief, practical deck, you’ll learn about the three most common ailments sapping your creative or marketing team’s productivity and the managerial medicine you need to treat them. Peak team health is just around the corner with The Productivity Cure!
Anti-Patterns are like patterns, only more informative. With anti-patterns you will first see what patterns reoccur in "bad" retrospectives and then you will see how to avoid, or remedy, the situation.
Based on her experience with facilitating retrospectives, join Aino for an entertaining and informative presentation on the anti-patterns she has seen and how to overcome the problems. We also encourage the audience to chip-in with their experiences or questions along the way.
More details:
https://confengine.com/agile-india-2019/proposal/8342/retrospective-anti-patterns
Conference link: https://2019.agileindia.org
Five people at one computer? How can that possibly be productive?
While this seems like a reasonable question, it's not easily answered - until we begin to understand the power of flow.
Mob Programming grew from the quest of one team to learn how to work well together. Once we started We almost immediately noticed that working this way provided better results in a variety of ways:
We were getting more done, and they were the more important thing
The quality of our work was increasing dramatically
Our Knowledge, skills, and capabilities were improving rapidly
And all while we were having a lot of fun as well!
While we noticed these benefits and more, and it was clear this was in a large part due to working well together throughout the day - we didn't have an understanding of why this was working so wonderfully for us.
A hint came early on when we recognized we were achieving a one-piece flow - but we didn't realize the importance of this until we started exploring the meaning and power of "flow".
In this presentation, we'll share the results of that exploration, and see if we can get a better understanding of Mob Programming and the power of flow.
More details:
https://confengine.com/agile-india-2019/proposal/8275/mob-programming-and-the-power-of-flow
Conference link: https://2019.agileindia.org
Break the mold and boost your organization with Enterprise Social Systems!Agile Austria Conference
During the Agile Austria Conference 2017. Discover how to apply Enterprise Social Systems to find solutions for many of the challenges your company is facing.
Speaker: Erich Bühler
Op 21 januari heeft alweer de vierde Scrum Round Table met als thema ‘Team Maturity' plaatsgevonden. Onder leiding van senior ALM Consultant en Scrum Master Jasper Gilhuis van Delta-N is er gediscussieerd over de het toepassen en gebruik van Team Maturity modellen in de praktijk.
Ontwerpen Team Maturity Model
Ter start van de Round Table heeft Jasper een korte uiteenzetting gedaan van wat er aan modellen bekend is en wat er aan Als praktische invulling van de Round Table zijn de deelnemers over twee groepen verdeeld, waarbij deze groepen zijn we gestart met het opstellen van een model.
Voor het ontwerpen van het model waren een drietal uitgangspunten meegegeven;
- Doel van de metric, welk proces moet deze ondersteunen, waar richt deze zich op.
- Measure, welke informatie / gegevens willen we meten.
- Indicatoren, wat zijn mogelijke oorzaken van een positief dan wel negatief effect.
Onderwerpen welke door de groepen naar voren zijn gekomen zijn;
- Team Agility
- Added Business Value
- Definition of Done
- Agile Estimations
- Kennis deling
Metric: Definition of Done;
- Wat is de review ratio van de Definition of Done?
- Is de DOD compliant?
o Is deze up to date en wordt deze toegepast?
o Wordt hiervan afgeweken onder ‘druk’ van de organisatie?
o Is er voldoende kennis bij de Agile Team Members
Ervaringen met modellen in de praktijk
Tijdens de opdracht kwam naar voren dat het maken en hanteren van een model niet eenvoudig is. Het is een tijdrovend proces en er zijn allerlei facetten van modellen die besproken werden. Verschillende invalshoeken van de deelnemers zorgde voor mooie discussies.
Binnen de modellen varieerden de focusgebieden van deze van team leden niveau tot organisatie scope.
Retrospective
Ter afsluiting van de middag hebben we een korte Retrospective gehouden. Tijdens deze ronde hebben we geconcludeerd dat er niet een model is wat van toepassing is op elke team of organisatie.
Belangrijke conclusie is dat veel van de modellen erg subjectief zijn en niet alles in cijfers uit te drukken valt.
Hieronder enkele reacties van deelnemers over deze Round Table:
“Leerzaam, levendige discussie.”
“Leuk!.”
“Herkenning van situatie”
“Moeilijk meetbaar maken”
“Meer model gedacht”
The Importance Of A Team Charter | AND DigitalAND Digital
Finding it a challenge to get into a remote rhythm with your team? A team charter can be extremely valuable for distributed teams.
Find out how a team charter can help you determine what is important to you as a team and clarify how your team wants to work together to achieve their objectives.
This presentation goes into details about impediments, how to identify them, how to create a strategy for, escalate, and ultimately - if not removing them entirely - moving the needle to improve the situation. Apologies for the outdated styling - it's on my backlog to improve it!
Scrum master vs agile coach difference explainedKaty Slemon
Scrum Master vs Agile Coach: Know the key differences between Scrum Master and Agile Coach. Also, understand the roles & responsibilities of both approaches.
Self-organization is a core concept in the agile principles but can be hard to embrace in traditional command and control environments. We will experience what self-organization is, how it can help your team, and how you can experiment with self-organization strategies in a safe place.
Kyiv Project Management Day 2017 Spring
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Анна Мамаєва «Retrospective: Total Recall»
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Сайт конференції: http://pmday.org/
Спільнота в мережі Linkedin: http://bit.ly/PMDayLin
Спільнота в мережі facebook: http://bit.ly/PMDayKyivFB
Twitter конференції: https://twitter.com/LvivPMDay
Sudokuban is a Kanban in practice example activity that takes about 20-25 minutes to run. This is the slidepack that goes with the game to briefly introduce Kanban before the game and then give some more in depth information afterwards.
The benefit of a Sudoku based game is that it mimics the software development process more closely - ie requires in depth, concentrated effort, where pairing could hamper the concentration.
The sudoku game pack comprises of 12 sudoku puzzles, setup partly in progress in flow with low WIP limits. Quality issues are embedded into the pack to ensure that failure occurs immediately and WIP constraints get met to force the change in behaviour.
Expedites are added part way in (two closely together) to form behaviour around handling them.
Team will generally learn:
1) How to use WIP limits
2) How to swarm to remove blockers
3) How to handle expedites
4) To re-prioritise according to value
5) The value of someone still looking out for the team's flow
Conducted at Sydney's AgileTour 2013.
The "Scrum by Picture" is something you can call Scrum Guide illustrated. You will find the theory, scrum values, scrum team, scrum events including sprint, sprint planning, daily scrum, review and retrospective as well as scrum artifacts. All of those is explained in easy to follow, illustrated nicely presentation, which can assist you to catch the idea behind Scrum.
Feel free to share any of your thoughts about this "Scrum by Picture" - your feedback is more than appreciated.
"The “Course Topics” series from Manage Train Learn and Slide Topics is a collection of over 4000 slides that will help you master a wide range of management and personal development skills. The 202 PowerPoints in this series offer you a complete and in-depth study of each topic. This presentation is on "Working Time".
Getting things done- Leadership Development Series- E2LogyE2LOGY
In today's leadership session at E2Logy, we discussed that getting things done is becoming challenging these days, for developers & managers both. The presentation highlighted key points from David Allen's bestseller book Getting Things Done.
A guide to creating a quality project schedule it-toolkitsIT-Toolkits.org
Successful projects start with a good quality project schedule. Creating a schedule is one of the first tasks you should do when given a project to manage. There is often a temptation to get on with the work and worry about the schedule later, but this is a mistake. You will be left exposed and if challenged, will have no evidence of whether your project is on time or running late.
My keynote at AgileNCR2016 at Gurgaon, 9 Dec. In this talk, I explore the very basis of the role of scrum master, what happens when that jobs is done, and what should you do next?
Comments, objections and feedback welcome!
Virtual teams are more common than ever.
They allow companies to expand their reach and provide employees with opportunities they would not have otherwise had. However, managing virtual teams also comes with unique challenges that require special solutions.
In this article, we will discuss all of the necessary steps and strategies a virtual team manager should undertake to successfully lead his or her remote teams without any confusion or frustration.
This presentation goes into details about impediments, how to identify them, how to create a strategy for, escalate, and ultimately - if not removing them entirely - moving the needle to improve the situation. Apologies for the outdated styling - it's on my backlog to improve it!
Scrum master vs agile coach difference explainedKaty Slemon
Scrum Master vs Agile Coach: Know the key differences between Scrum Master and Agile Coach. Also, understand the roles & responsibilities of both approaches.
Self-organization is a core concept in the agile principles but can be hard to embrace in traditional command and control environments. We will experience what self-organization is, how it can help your team, and how you can experiment with self-organization strategies in a safe place.
Kyiv Project Management Day 2017 Spring
-------------------------
Анна Мамаєва «Retrospective: Total Recall»
-------------------------
Сайт конференції: http://pmday.org/
Спільнота в мережі Linkedin: http://bit.ly/PMDayLin
Спільнота в мережі facebook: http://bit.ly/PMDayKyivFB
Twitter конференції: https://twitter.com/LvivPMDay
Sudokuban is a Kanban in practice example activity that takes about 20-25 minutes to run. This is the slidepack that goes with the game to briefly introduce Kanban before the game and then give some more in depth information afterwards.
The benefit of a Sudoku based game is that it mimics the software development process more closely - ie requires in depth, concentrated effort, where pairing could hamper the concentration.
The sudoku game pack comprises of 12 sudoku puzzles, setup partly in progress in flow with low WIP limits. Quality issues are embedded into the pack to ensure that failure occurs immediately and WIP constraints get met to force the change in behaviour.
Expedites are added part way in (two closely together) to form behaviour around handling them.
Team will generally learn:
1) How to use WIP limits
2) How to swarm to remove blockers
3) How to handle expedites
4) To re-prioritise according to value
5) The value of someone still looking out for the team's flow
Conducted at Sydney's AgileTour 2013.
The "Scrum by Picture" is something you can call Scrum Guide illustrated. You will find the theory, scrum values, scrum team, scrum events including sprint, sprint planning, daily scrum, review and retrospective as well as scrum artifacts. All of those is explained in easy to follow, illustrated nicely presentation, which can assist you to catch the idea behind Scrum.
Feel free to share any of your thoughts about this "Scrum by Picture" - your feedback is more than appreciated.
"The “Course Topics” series from Manage Train Learn and Slide Topics is a collection of over 4000 slides that will help you master a wide range of management and personal development skills. The 202 PowerPoints in this series offer you a complete and in-depth study of each topic. This presentation is on "Working Time".
Getting things done- Leadership Development Series- E2LogyE2LOGY
In today's leadership session at E2Logy, we discussed that getting things done is becoming challenging these days, for developers & managers both. The presentation highlighted key points from David Allen's bestseller book Getting Things Done.
A guide to creating a quality project schedule it-toolkitsIT-Toolkits.org
Successful projects start with a good quality project schedule. Creating a schedule is one of the first tasks you should do when given a project to manage. There is often a temptation to get on with the work and worry about the schedule later, but this is a mistake. You will be left exposed and if challenged, will have no evidence of whether your project is on time or running late.
My keynote at AgileNCR2016 at Gurgaon, 9 Dec. In this talk, I explore the very basis of the role of scrum master, what happens when that jobs is done, and what should you do next?
Comments, objections and feedback welcome!
Virtual teams are more common than ever.
They allow companies to expand their reach and provide employees with opportunities they would not have otherwise had. However, managing virtual teams also comes with unique challenges that require special solutions.
In this article, we will discuss all of the necessary steps and strategies a virtual team manager should undertake to successfully lead his or her remote teams without any confusion or frustration.
Flip the Script Friday - Working From HomeHeather Newman
Flip the Script Friday - Working from Home session - learning about all the different ways folks are connecting along with all of you. Talking Microsoft Teams, Zoom and WFH tips from me and Microsoft
There’s no existing playbook for what we are experiencing
Right now, people all around the world are asking:
“What will we look like after all this?”
“What will our new world services be?”
For some people and organisations, the next six months will be the turning point that helps them clarify their vision and build a better future for their organisations and the communities they serve.
For others, it will be a chaotic time that sets them back or sees them close.
Now is the time to make the changes that are long overdue – as well as imagine what the new world will need you for.
It’s time to design the new playbook, together.
Head to https://acceleration.team to join the conversation.
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HAME502: Building High-Performing Teams
Cornell UniversityCourse Project
Part One: Diagnosing Your Team
Instructions:
In this project, you will outline strategic elements critical in leading your team. In doing so, you will map a plan for diagnosing the team’s needs, building collaboration, generating conflict, managing virtual team space, and finally, shifting your own leadership role. This plan will enable you to thoughtfully provide your team with the leadership it needs to perform at its highest levels.
First, identify if the team is new or if you are new to the team. (Or alternatively, you and the team may have been working with one another for awhile. If so, think of your team as new all over again and try to look at it with fresh eyes.) Next, complete the appropriate chartin order to identify areas of development or needs for your team.
If the team is new,engage (or reengage) your team in a discussion of its vision and mission. What is the desired future state and the overall purpose of your team? What does the organization need the team to accomplish? Identify members’ roles and responsibilities. Prepare between 3-5 long-term and short-term goals. Enter your results into Chart A.
If you are new to the team, collect data. Interview at least five team members. Observe the team working. What do you notice? What is the work pattern? Based on your analysis of your data, identify and discuss between 3-5 actions/behaviors that the team needs from you.Enter your results into Chart B.
Chart A: Building Your Team
when the team is new
Team Goals
With your team, identify what your organization needs your team to accomplish. Outline 3-5 of your short-term and long-term goals here.
Member Roles & Responsibilities
Identify key roles and responsibilities that will achieve and support your team in reaching your goals. List these roles and state who will be responsible for each.
If you have completed Chart A, you have completed part one of your course project. You do not need to complete Chart B.
Chart B: Building Your Team
when you are new to your team
Interview Findings
After interviewing five members of your team, summarize your findings based on each category below:
What actions or processes are working well?
What actions or processes can be improved?
Overall, how effective do they think your team is?
Observations of Team
After observing your team working, what do you notice? What work patterns can you identify?
Recommendations
Based on your findings, identify 3-5 recommendations you have for your team. Outline how you will or have communicated these recommendations.
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4.
5.
Part Two: Building Collaboration
Instructions:
In this module, we put the lens on you to consider both how your team members act and interact, as well as how you engage your team.
For part two of your project, map a plan for how you want to engage with your team, moving forward. Prepare a list of id ...
Staying On Track With Virtual Teams- Web Version 092010tmharpster
This session explores the promise and challenge of virtual teaming. Using a simulation to demonstrate the real-world challenges, participants gain insight into the issues that commonly trip up virtual team members - and identify strategies for overcoming these challenges.
The current emergency has forced us to live with remote working and to develop best practices and guidelines.
We believe that knowing useful tricks and tips for working like this will be increasingly important in the future. What sorts of things do we need to look out for? Are there any tricks for making remote working better?
The following are some of the lessons we have learned over these last few months.
Happy reading!
Similar to Betterwork - Remote Work Starter Kit (20)
The case study discusses the potential of drone delivery and the challenges that need to be addressed before it becomes widespread.
Key takeaways:
Drone delivery is in its early stages: Amazon's trial in the UK demonstrates the potential for faster deliveries, but it's still limited by regulations and technology.
Regulations are a major hurdle: Safety concerns around drone collisions with airplanes and people have led to restrictions on flight height and location.
Other challenges exist: Who will use drone delivery the most? Is it cost-effective compared to traditional delivery trucks?
Discussion questions:
Managerial challenges: Integrating drones requires planning for new infrastructure, training staff, and navigating regulations. There are also marketing and recruitment considerations specific to this technology.
External forces vary by country: Regulations, consumer acceptance, and infrastructure all differ between countries.
Demographics matter: Younger generations might be more receptive to drone delivery, while older populations might have concerns.
Stakeholders for Amazon: Customers, regulators, aviation authorities, and competitors are all stakeholders. Regulators likely hold the greatest influence as they determine the feasibility of drone delivery.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) offers new opportunities to radically reinvent the way we do business. This study explores how CEOs and top decision makers around the world are responding to the transformative potential of AI.
Senior Project and Engineering Leader Jim Smith.pdfJim Smith
I am a Project and Engineering Leader with extensive experience as a Business Operations Leader, Technical Project Manager, Engineering Manager and Operations Experience for Domestic and International companies such as Electrolux, Carrier, and Deutz. I have developed new products using Stage Gate development/MS Project/JIRA, for the pro-duction of Medical Equipment, Large Commercial Refrigeration Systems, Appliances, HVAC, and Diesel engines.
My experience includes:
Managed customized engineered refrigeration system projects with high voltage power panels from quote to ship, coordinating actions between electrical engineering, mechanical design and application engineering, purchasing, production, test, quality assurance and field installation. Managed projects $25k to $1M per project; 4-8 per month. (Hussmann refrigeration)
Successfully developed the $15-20M yearly corporate capital strategy for manufacturing, with the Executive Team and key stakeholders. Created project scope and specifications, business case, ROI, managed project plans with key personnel for nine consumer product manufacturing and distribution sites; to support the company’s strategic sales plan.
Over 15 years of experience managing and developing cost improvement projects with key Stakeholders, site Manufacturing Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Maintenance, and facility support personnel to optimize pro-duction operations, safety, EHS, and new product development. (BioLab, Deutz, Caire)
Experience working as a Technical Manager developing new products with chemical engineers and packaging engineers to enhance and reduce the cost of retail products. I have led the activities of multiple engineering groups with diverse backgrounds.
Great experience managing the product development of products which utilize complex electrical controls, high voltage power panels, product testing, and commissioning.
Created project scope, business case, ROI for multiple capital projects to support electrotechnical assembly and CPG goods. Identified project cost, risk, success criteria, and performed equipment qualifications. (Carrier, Electrolux, Biolab, Price, Hussmann)
Created detailed projects plans using MS Project, Gant charts in excel, and updated new product development in Jira for stakeholders and project team members including critical path.
Great knowledge of ISO9001, NFPA, OSHA regulations.
User level knowledge of MRP/SAP, MS Project, Powerpoint, Visio, Mastercontrol, JIRA, Power BI and Tableau.
I appreciate your consideration, and look forward to discussing this role with you, and how I can lead your company’s growth and profitability. I can be contacted via LinkedIn via phone or E Mail.
Jim Smith
678-993-7195
jimsmith30024@gmail.com
Oprah Winfrey: A Leader in Media, Philanthropy, and Empowerment | CIO Women M...CIOWomenMagazine
This person is none other than Oprah Winfrey, a highly influential figure whose impact extends beyond television. This article will delve into the remarkable life and lasting legacy of Oprah. Her story serves as a reminder of the importance of perseverance, compassion, and firm determination.
1. Remote Work Starter Kit
REMOTE WORK
STARTER KIT
We can still connect as humans, work together and support each other
even when we’re not in the same room.
That’s why we’ve created the Remote Work Starter Kit, the people side of
going remote, to help you to establish a healthy and human way of
working remotely with your team.
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
2. Remote Work Starter Kit
This is the playbook for the
people side of doing remote
work well.
This Kit
Addresses
Remote Work Policy
Principles & Norms
Rhythm & Rituals
Resources & Tools
Practices & Workflow
✅
✅
✅
✅
✅
4. Remote Work Starter Kit
What if ain’t nobody got time
for that kit? (tl;dr)
Copy a Team
Health Survey
Get the
Remote Work
Canvas
Get the
Remote Work
Agreement
Doc
Download the
Team
Calendar
Download the
Experiment
Board
Add Your Plays
to a Public
Library
Send fortnightly,
review
fortnightly.
Review practices
monthly in a
team retro.
Codify your
practices in a
living Team
Agreement doc.
Modify after two
weeks of
experimentation.
Get into the habit
of fortnightly or
monthly cycles of
experimentation.
Help others out -
add what’s
working for you in
your team.
If you can’t access Dropbox or Google let us know on crew@betterwork.co.za and we’ll send you the kit.
6. Remote Work Starter Kit
People-Positive
Principles
Climatic forces have prompted your team to go remote, fast. At high
speed you’re asking that people in your team change their mental
models about work, adapt their routine and habits but still maintain
their productivity.
7. Remote Work Starter Kit
Let the team doing the work decide how it gets done
Grant teams the agency to align on the outcomes of their
work. Encourage them to make decisions autonomously
and build trust with one another in ways that might not
adhere to your organisation’s structure or way of working.
1. Change is a team sport 🙏
Empowering over
Controlling
🙏 https://www.responsive.org/manifesto 🙏 https://agilemanifesto.org 🙏 Adidas ‘Change is a Team Sport’
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Change is complex which means it’s
unpredictable. Good practice will rise out of
your context and deliberate, ongoing
experimentation - not copying the startup next
door.
2. Don’t copy-and-paste culture 🙏
Experimenting over
‘Best Practice’
🙏 Bud Caddell, Nobl, from https://openviewpartners.com/blog/where-companies-get-culture-wrong-and-how-to-fix-
it/
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When everything around you is emerging or you’re
trying things out for the first time, a regular cadence
for getting things done provides a sturdy scaffold on
which to build new ways of working.
3. Slow and steady wins the race 🙏
Build ‘scaffolding’ to
Support Teamwork
🙏 Notes on Scaffolding and Constraints in Complexity by Mark Rettig
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“In this world of abundant information and connectedness the
potential benefits of trusting people who share the organisation’s
purpose to act on information as they see fit often outweighs the
potential risks of open information being used in counter-
productive ways.” - Responsive.org Manifesto
4. No team member gets left behind 🙏
Access over
Ownership
🙏 ‘Mentally Friendly’ - Remote teamwork guide
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Our hope is
that you
consider and
experiment
with flexible
work long-term
🙏 Google Future of Work Report
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Take Your Team’s
Pulse
To measure a team’s level of psychological
safety, Amy Edmondson, Harvard’s
organisational behavioural scientist, surveyed
team members on how strongly they agreed or
disagreed with 7 statements.
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Remote Work Pulse Challenge:
Support Psychological Safety
2
3
4
5
6
Challenge
Rhythm
HOW TO RUN
Build the survey with a sliding scale of 1 - 10,
gather anonymous responses.
Share the link with an explanation of your
intentions, the use of data and a guarantee of
anonymity.
Gather and analyse responses and assemble the
report.
Convene the team to work through the team’s
score per question. For each, ask your team to
identify a tension or propose a solution which
might explain or address the scores.
Repeat and Review as a team fortnightly
SURVEY QUESTIONS
1. If you make a mistake on this team, it is often held
against you.
2. Members of this team are able to bring up problems
and tough issues.
3. People on this team sometimes reject others for
being different.
4. It is safe to take a risk on this team.
5. It is difficult to ask other members of this team for
help.
6. No one on this team would deliberately act in a way
that undermines my efforts.
7. Working with members of this team, my unique skills
and talents are valued and utilized.
1
2
3
4
5
Copy the Team Health Survey Google form
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Remote Work Pulse Inspiration
6
Challenge
Rhythm
RESOURCES
🔗 Listen to Amy Edmondson discuss her research on team work
🔗 Watch Amy Edmondson’s TED Talk on Psychological Safety in Teams
🔗 Read Google’s Guide on to Fostering Psychological Safety on Re:Work
🔗 Use Atlassian’s Team Health Monitor: Assess Your Team Against 8 Attributes
of Healthy Teams
🔗 Use a simple check-in with your team to determine how their remote work
experience is going (Slack HQ)
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Work Through The
RW Canvas
Use the RW Canvas as a thinking tool to
help your team develop practical ways to
identify principles and practices for how
you’ll work remotely across common
operating themes such as Resources or
Agreements.
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Get Your
Copy of the
RW Canvas
Download a Print-Ready
PDF
🔗 Click Here
Editable PDF Canvas
🔗 Click Here
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How To Use The RW Canvas
1
2
3
4
5
Gather your team together on a 2-hour video call.
Assign a facilitator and a note-taker beforehand.
Define what the experience of work should feel like
(North Star section).
Work through each block on the canvas using the
provided guiding questions. Allow participants a
few minutes to think individually then have a group
discussion.
Find at least one practice to try for each block with
the aim of amplifying enablers and reducing
hindering conditions to progress.
Adapt or adopt a habit from the Habit Kit or
explore inspiration items available in each theme’s
resources section in this kit.
Live and measure your new practice for two weeks
and then review the results together as a team.6
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Adopt a
Habit from
the Kit
To get you started we’ve included general
patterns of behaviour which have proven
repeatedly successful to remote teams. For
each theme you’ll find a simple tool and a
habit or practice e.g. our guide to running
awesome remote calls.
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DEFINE KNOWLEDGE-SHARING STANDARDS
Challenge
Rhythm
Develop a Policy For Collaborative Work
Ensure no teammate is left behind by establishing how you’re going to share knowledge as a team. It’s
crucial that every member of your team has access to the same tools and information. It should be easy to
keep your team’s collective knowledge stored and updated.
This living, centrally stored document could include:
📝 Living playbook of your team’s ways of working, like
the playbook you’ll create to work remotely. 📌 Decision Log: Broadcast and store the latest
information (decisions, news, etc.) in a decision
log.
✍ Work and data from the beginning of a project. To do
this you’ll need to define a standard for how you’ll
track progress e.g. like storing notes from every
meeting and working collaboratively on documents.
Product or Service Roadmaps to establish a
direction and help your team to take decisions on
the prioritisation of tasks.
Template library: a practice for how you’ll share,
reuse and adapt documents across teams to
encourage cross-functional collaboration and
diminish duplicate work.
👩 List of teams and roles their team contracts and
rules of engagement to know who is doing what
and how to “hire” them.
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Challenge
Rhythm
BUILD A SIMPLE COMMUNICATION PLAN
Develop Your Comms Toolkit
Think about how effective the office is as communication tool. You can spontaneously pull
someone aside and get the info you want quickly. We lack the visual cues to know when this is
appropriate to do so remotely. We have to be intentional about how we communicate as a
team.
Your Plan Should Include:
👍 Rules of Thumb for how you’ll communicate
remotely as a team like “we don’t change tracks in
emails”.
Social plan: to create opportunities for connection
belonging.
🙌 Channel Plan: most appropriate ways to
communicate for a given task or stakeholder group
(like third-parties)
👩
💻
Expectations for communication and how we
individually indicate our availability.
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Information & Communication
Challenge
Rhythm
Inspiration
✍ Get August’s Team Working
Agreements Document
🔗 The Art of Asynchronous
Communication
Asynchronous Communication for
Remote Teams
🔗 Slack’s Mini Internal
Communication Guide
🔗 Basecamp’s Employee Handbook
(comms)
RESOURCES
🔗 GitLab Communication Plan
🔗 G Suites’ (Google) 10 tips to improve
communication
🔗 Gov.uk’s Guidance on Open Standards
🔗 View the Gov.uk Design Team’s
Product Roadmap
🔗 Download Google Suite Way of Work
Report
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BELONGING & PRESENCE
Challenge
Rhythm
Design for Belonging and Presence
A recent article from The Wall Street Journal suggests that the most successful companies of the present
and future are those that give employees a sense of belonging. Missing out on the banter at the office and
the daily conversations can dramatically affect how connected people feel to teams.
Action: Build regular opportunities to connect socially and personally during the work week and make them
part of your team’s stable rhythm. Here are thought-starters to encourage connection and belonging.
🌅 Morning Catch-Ups: A chance to discuss what’s got
your team’s attention. We repeat, these are not
status calls. Capeesh?
🎧 Team Playlist: Establish a team playlist to support
the week’s mood and help team’s to feel like
they’re part of a community.
AMA (Ask Me Anything): As an alternative to a formal
town hall. The team gets to ask one person anything.
Basecamp’s 5x12s: Every month a team lead picks 5
random people to have a 1-hour call with. There is
no agenda. It’s purely social and intended to be fun.
👌 Virtual Call Status Cards: Have everyone design a
common set of visual cues to help you to check the
mood of the room
Social Hangouts: Just because you’re remote it
doesn’t mean you shouldn’t eat together or hang
out.
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SET UP A ROLE BOARD
Challenge
Rhythm
Make it explicitly clear who does what around here
At the office, negotiating who does what can be done ad-hoc. Going remote necessitates explicitly assigning
clear roles and responsibilities to identify each member's contribution to the team, and learn of everyone’s
needs in order to be successful. To support your team going remote, you may also need to add new roles to
your team in order to support remote work.
Here’s how to set up a collaborative role board as a remote team:
● Set up a visual role board using Microsoft Planner or Trello like this example from Nobl
● Read the guide to building your Role Board
● Go through the role board and identify any roles which cannot be performed remotely or any roles
which need to be added because we work remotely
● Assign roles to each team member with a clear outline of their responsibilities to the rest of the team
● Circulate the results of your session and store the document centrally
● Review in two weeks and modify the document as needed. Repeat this cycle monthly.
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MEMBERSHIP & ROLES Inspiration
Challenge
Rhythm
🔗 How to Let Your Employees Job Craft
🔗 How to Define Roles & Responsibilities Using A Role Board (Nobl)
🔗 Managing Cultural Differences in Remote Work (No Border)
🔗 The Perception of Presence in Remote Teams (Intense Minimalism)
🔗 Atlassian’s Roles & Responsibilities Play
🔗 How to Create Belonging In Remote Teams (MIT Sloan)
RESOURCES
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EMPATHY MAPPING TO IDENTIFY NEEDS, PAINS & GAINS
Challenge
Rhythm
1
2
3
“The Empathy Map is a particular tool that helps teams develop deep, shared understanding and
empathy for other people. People use it to help them improve customer experience, navigate
organisational politics, design better work environments, and a host of other things.”
Dave Gray
Get a Copy of the XPlane Empathy Map Canvas
Read Dave Gray’s Guide to Using the Canvas
You could tackle this exercise as a group over a
video call or as a team leader for your team
members.
Bear in mind that you want to address social,
technological, environmental and psychological
needs, pains and gains.
Use an Empathy Map to establish what resources your team will need to get their job
done.
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Resources
Challenge
Rhythm
Inspiration
🔗 Formstack’s Remote Team Tech Kit
🔗 Fred Perrotta’s Tech Stack for Remote Teams
🔗 What’s Your Company’s Emergency Remote Plan (HBR)
🔗 Establish Clear Priorities Using Even-Over Statements (Liberationist)
RESOURCES
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MAP YOUR TEAM WORKFLOWS
Challenge
Rhythm
A workflow is a sequence of processes through which a piece of work passes, from initiation to
completion. It’s the steps you take for how you get stuff done. At work, our workflows have
become routine. Going remote, you’ll need new ways to get stuff done. Workflows could include
how we manage projects, how we brief work, and how we prioritise work.
Here’s how you could use a Service Blueprint to Guide You:
● Gather a list of common workflows e.g. how we brief in work,
how we engage stakeholders, how we submit and review our
work,
● Book a call to discuss which workflows need to be reinvented
for remote work,
● Split your team into groups (on the call). Give them a day to
redesign the workflow using a Service Blueprint canvas to
guide them,
● Bring the groups back together on a call and demo the new
workflows. Refine them and trial them for two weeks. Review
and publish successful workflows (maps and guides) in a
playbook. Remember that they’re always in beta.
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Workflow Inspiration
Challenge
Rhythm
🔗 How to Design a Workflow (Rindle)
🔗 5 Steps to Service Blueprinting (NNG)
🔗 How to establish your team’s workflow (Asana)
🔗 What’s a workflow and why do you need it? (Trello)
🔗 How to Collaborate Remotely: Remote Ideation (NNG)
RESOURCES
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ESTABLISH RE-USABLE MEETING GUIDES
Challenge
Rhythm
1
2
DESIGN YOUR OWN REMOTE MEETINGS FACILITATOR GUIDE FOR CONSISTENT,
EFFECTIVE OUTCOMES
Every remote meeting requires a facilitator and an associated, context-specific guide
to facilitate remote meetings. Get started with your own by adding the general
guidelines below:
Download the Guide on Running Awesome Remote Meetings
Download a Facilitation Guide Template to build repeatable templates for your
most common meetings and rituals.
🙏 BetterWork’s Remote Call Guide
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Meetings Inspiration
Challenge
Rhythm
🔗 Why a Quick “Check-In” Makes Meetings More Effective (Nobl Academy)
🔗 Quickly find out “When to Chat” to your colleague from a different time-zone.
🔗 Watch Miro’s ‘Remote Facilitation Best Practices’ webinar
🔗 Icebreakers and Rituals for Remote Work: Highlights from NOBL Collective's
Virtual 'Change At Work' Conference
🔗 Meeting and Webinar Best Practices from Zoom
🔗 16 tips for engaging teams on video calls
RESOURCES
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DEFINE DECISION-MAKING RIGHTS WITH ‘DACI’
Challenge
Rhythm
DEFINE EACH PERSON’S ROLE IN MAKING A DECISION
Who has the final say? What decision rights do you have as individuals and teams?
Now that you’re remote, how you make decisions will need to be explicitly clear -
there’s no time for the usual back-and-forth of face-to-face negotiation.
The Atlassian DACI Framework can help you make group decisions efficiently and effectively.
When you need to make a decision as a group, identify:
● Driver: Person responsible for bringing all stakeholder voices to the table, summarising all
viewpoints and input and ensuring a decision is made
● Approver: Person responsible for approving the decision, like the key stakeholder
● Contributors: People with knowledge, expertise and on-the-ground intel on the specified
topic
● Informed: People affected by the decision, informed post-meeting. If possible, always get a
representative from this group to be involved in the decision-making framework
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DECISION LOG
Challenge
Rhythm
TRACK YOUR DECISIONS
All projects (not tasks) could benefit from recording the decisions that materially
impacted progress. Think of it like a captain’s log. If anyone found it they’d get a
quick look at the climate, your team’s considerations and recommendations. You
can see how this would be beneficial to remote teams who can’t always be on
every call, or a part of every chat.
On a project document list each major decision you made as a team. Bonus points
if you can identify people from the DACI per decision.
A decision log should include: what’s being considered, relevant research, trade-
offs, recommendations and the final decision.
🙏 Build Up Decisive Work Habits - Start a Decision Log (Forbes)
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BE A BETTER PRESENTER OF IDEAS (SCIPAB METHOD)
Challenge
Rhythm
FAST-TRACK REMOTE DECISIONS
Lack of clarity when presenting an idea in the real world results in “let’s book another meeting to
discuss.” The same when working remotely creates multiple threads of overlapping
communication and huge waste. Mandel Communications refers to SCIPAB as the "sure-fire, six-
step method for starting any conversation or presentation”.
The Six Steps to presenting an idea effectively:
● Situation: Expresses the current state for discussion.
● Complication: Summarises the critical issues, challenges, or opportunities.
● Implication: Provides insight into the consequences that will be a result of the Complications not
being addressed.
● Position: Notes the presenter's opinion on the necessary changes which should be made.
● Action: Defines the expectations of the target audience/listeners.
● Benefit: Clearly concludes how the Position and Action sections will address the
● Complications: This method can be used in presentations, emails, and everyday conversations.
🙏 Six Steps to Start any Conversation or Presentation
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Decision-Making Inspiration
Challenge
Rhythm
🔗 Use the Decider bot to help your team pick the right decision-making process
(Nobl)
🔗 Atlassian’s DACI Framework and Template
🔗 Avoid Decision-Making Mistakes Use A Decision Log (Forbes)
🔗 Establish Clear Priorities Using Even-Over Statements (Liberationist)
RESOURCES
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PERSONAL USER MANUAL
Challenge
Rhythm
HOW TO WORK WITH ME MANUAL
A personal user manual is a fun way to share your individual preferences for how
you like to collaborate and communicate. The manual will help people in your team
regain some control over how they would like to work dampening the effects of
loss-aversion, i.e. losing a routine and habits.
How to Make Yours
● Best suited for your immediate team i.e not division.
● Introduce the idea of a “manual of me” to your team via email and have them think about
and record their answers to the 10 prompts Atlassian recommends.
● Convene a remote call (2 hrs) and have each team member quickly share their manual.
● Store the manuals in a central location which can be accessed.
● Check-in on the team in a week to see if the manuals need to be revised or upon reflection
if any new Team Norms need to be established.
🙏 Atlassian’s How To Work With Me Manual
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TEAM RETROSPECTIVE
Challenge
Rhythm
PAUSE AND REFLECT ON THE WORK TO LEARN
A retrospective is a great way to pause and look back at the previous batch of
work we’ve done. But it’s just as useful to pause and look back at how we’re
doing as a team.
Running August’s Team Health Retro Session:
1. Prompt the team to silently write down reflections and observations on the following
questions. For each question, set a timer for 2 minutes:
a. “What worked?” in the last period
b. “Where did you get stuck?” in the last period
2. In a round, ask each team member to share the highlights from the reflection
3. Set a timer for 2 more minutes and ask the team: “What might we do differently?”
4. In a round, ask each team member to share the highlights
5. Capture in a shared space the actions, projects and commitments the team made
during the final round
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Team Health Inspiration
Challenge
Rhythm
🔗 ’How To Work With Me’ Manual (Atlassian)
🔗 Nobl’s: Why Change is a Loss and How You Can Help Your Team Navigate It
🔗 Google Re:Work Foster Psychological Safety
🔗 Atlassian’s Team Health Monitor: Assess Your Team Against 8 Attributes of
Healthy Teams
RESOURCES
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TEAM RHYTHM & RITUALS
Challenge
Rhythm
KEEP A RHYTHM TO KEEP STABILITY
If you’re a team lead the first thing you’ll miss is a familiar routine and the habits
at work which help the team to maintain human connection - the cadence of work.
Cadence is like our team’s pulse or drum beat, it helps us keep time. Rituals are
actions performed in a certain order, like warm-up, exercise, cool-down, or
prepare, cook, plate, eat, laugh, clean-up.
Bring the team together and build your team’s calendar and rituals together.
Establish what rituals you’ll need to sustain momentum, learning in the work,
human connection and sense what your market and client’s needs are.
Get the Calendar
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Team Rhythm Inspiration
Challenge
Rhythm
🔗 Buy Nobl’s Team Tempo - a guide to keeping a rhythm in a team
🔗 Four agile ceremonies, demystified (Atlassian)
🔗 The role of cadence and ritual in work (Asana)
🔗 Want to strengthen workplace culture? Design a ritual (Huffington Post)
RESOURCES
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TEAM PRINCIPLES
Challenge
Rhythm
Teamwork is hard, but a winning team culture helps a lot. Collaboratively define the
social norms that will become your team's customised secret sauce.
Use the Atlassian Rules of Engagement session to establish your team’s norms.
This play will help you to:
● Codify your team's values and build team culture.
● Openly discuss the practices, results, and behaviors you expect from one
another.
Remote Hack
We advocate that you establish your team’s norms first and then apply the
constraint of remote work second. In that way this play will serve your team well
long-term.
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TEAM CONTRACT
Challenge
Rhythm
To avoid misunderstandings—and address culture fails—outline what the team
should expect from each other, and from the organisation.
1. Read Nobl’s guide to developing your Team Contract
1. Download Nobl’s Team Contract Template
1. Gather the team (on a video call), setting aside 2 hours for this, work through
the team contract guide and then imagine how you might need to contract
now that you’re working remotely.
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TEAM AGREEMENTS Inspiration
Challenge
Rhythm
🔗 SuperEvilMegaCorps Remote First Processes,
Tools and Guidelines
🔗 Clearbit’s Approach to Management
🔗 Hubspot’s Remote Work Policy template
🔗 Atlassian’s Team Health Monitor: Assess Your
Team Against 8 Attributes of Healthy Teams
RESOURCES
“Trello’s Remote Rules”
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Build Your Team’s
Calendar
We navigate our week by cues and rituals. They’re
the north stars we head toward. Everything else
around us can change but if we feel that we’re
heading in the right direction we’ll feel comfort and
stability. Shifting to remote work, we need a new
set of cues and rituals to help to establish and
support connection and stability.
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Challenge
Rhythm
Remote Work Rhythm Challenge:
Support Psychological Safety
WK M T W T F
1
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3
4
TEAM
RETRO
(TR)
PLAN SHIPGROUP CHECK-
IN
GROUP CHECK-
IN
GROUP CHECK-
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GROUP CHECK-
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GROUP CHECK-
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GROUP CHECK-
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PLAN
HANGOUT
LEADER 1:1s
EXPERT
PLAN SHIP
PLAN SHIP
GROUP CHECK-
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GROUP CHECK-
IN
GROUP CHECK-
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GROUP CHECK-
IN
GROUP CHECK-
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TEAM
RETRO
(TR)
Customer
POV
Pulse
Pulse
Excel Starter Kit
🔗 Download Excel Calendar
Google Docs Starter Kit
🔗 Download the Calendar
Download a
Team Calendar
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Turn Your Policy
into Practice
A simple workflow to follow which will help
you to identify if your way of working is
working through rigorous experimentation.
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Continuous Improvement Experiments
Challenge
Rhythm
Instead of assuming that our new ways of working are going to be a success we should subject
ideas to rigorous experimentation. That’s because it’s easier to draw the right conclusions using
information revealed through experiments than by relying on our intuitive sense of cause and
effect. This will also reveal organisational drivers of success which might be otherwise invisible to
us.
“One of the main (if not the main)
strategies for dealing with a complex
system is to create a range of safe-fail
experiments or probes that will allow the
nature of emergent possibilities to
become more visible…
Everyone with an idea that has even the
remotest possibility of being true or
useful creates a safe fail experiment
based on the idea.”
Dave Snowden
🙏 Snowden, D and Boone, M (2007) A leader's framework for decision-making, Harvard Business Review pp. 68–76
Dave Snowden’s Criteria for an experiment 🙏
● Any experiment must be something you can do something about
and that you believe stands a chance of having a positive effect.
● Secondly, it has to be a change with an observable or measurable
effect so that you can see if the change was good or bad.
● The experiment must be something you believe you can dampen if
it goes wrong (i.e. safe-to-fail) or amplify the effect if it goes well.
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Continuous Improvement Experiments
Challenge
Rhythm
In complex systems with lots of
moving parts, our “experiments”
are more like safe-to-fail
interventions.
Try something. Sense impact.
Amplify the good. Dampen the
bad. Try something again. Keep
tightening the sense and
respond loop.
John Cutler
To start your first work experiment you will need to turn any
solutions proposed in your Remote Work Canvas session into
experiments.
1. Download the Experiment Template or Copy the Google
Sheet
1. Gather your team (on a video call), setting aside 1 hour to
design a manageable portfolio of experiments i.e. what you
can feasibly do within your team in 2 weeks.
1. Agree on when you’ll review the data and then modify or
change the experiments based on what has emerged in the
trial. Note what works into your Remote Work playbook and
store your unsuccessful experiments.
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We can’t do
this alone. We
need your
help.
Add to the Public
Playbook of
Remote Work
Practices. ➡ Start Contributing Click Here
64. Remote Work Starter Kit
Challenge
Rhythm
Playbook Inspiration
🔗 Zapier’s Ultimate Guide to
Working Remotely
🔗 How to Embrace Remote Work -
The Trello Guide
🔗 GitLab’s Guide to Remote Work
🔗 Kunik’s Suddenly Remote
Workforce (includes tips for
working parents)
PLAYBOOK EXAMPLES
🔗 Humaan’s Remote Work Resources:
Onboarding, Trust, Difficult
Conversations...
🔗 Remote Work Survival Toolkit
🔗 SEMC Q1 2020 Remote First Guidelines
🔗 Overcoming Challenges While Working
Remotely (Atlassian)
🔗 Evernote’s Leading Virtual Teams
Handbook
66. Remote Work Starter Kit
Your wellbeing
matters. Here’s a
Remote Work
Canvas for You
Created by Itamar Goldminz
Get It Here ➡ https://medium.com/org-hacking/remote-work-canvas-b77d06b5d38f