Playing games remotely

REMOTE GAMES
Tommy Quitt
APIL 2017

Why is it difficult?
 Culture differences
 Trust
 Communications
 Different mental models
 Work transition / temporal agility
From: Factors that Inhibit Globally Distributed Software
Development Teams, Deanna House, 2012

-Wayne Dyer-
If you change
the way you
look at things,
the things you
look at change.

Agile Manifesto
Individuals &
interactions
OVER*
Processes & Tools
Working
software
OVER*
Comprehensive
documentation
Customer
collaboration
OVER*
Contract negotiation
Responding
to change
OVER*
Following a
plan

Do Remote
Teams
Contradict
The Manifesto
Business people and developers must work together
daily throughout the project.
Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them
the environment and support they need, and trust them
to get the job done.
The most efficient and effective method of conveying
information to and within a development team is face-to-
face conversation.
Working software is the primary measure of progress.
Agile processes promote sustainable development. The
sponsors, developers, and users should be able to
maintain a constant pace indefinitely.
Continuous attention to technical excellence and good
design enhances agility.
Simplicity—the art of maximizing the amount of work not
done—is essential.

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About Wechange
Remote teams Agile in scale DevOps
Big data, Machine
learning
Agile project
delivery
Agile Sales

TOOLS
METHODS CULTURE

Develop the
team culture
even if it is
remote
Selfless Care about the
others
Humour
Culture

It is more
expensive
(because of
tools, visits)
We need to
freeze
documents
People on the
phone understand
and act as if they
were in the same
room

• Acknowledge the remoteness
and then align the mindset
o “what would you do in this call to be
fully engaged?” commitment
• Use the retro to discuss the
remote methods

CollaborationTools

How can we make video better?
Bring the camera
to the board!
Add a second
camera
Don’t be afraid to
use pen and
paper (not only
virtual tools)

Video Conferencing Remote Boards Collaboration

Things you can do remotely
Grooming Planning Dailies
Demo Retro

General Rules
• Disproportion between
people in the room and
people online  if yes,
everybody connects
remotely from their desk
• Speak a “local
language”  Speak only
English (or any other
common language like
Hobbitish)
• Always turn on the
camera!
• Start and finish on time
• Leave enough time for
set up (preferably keep
the line always open)

General Rules
1. Shorten the setup time (scrum room, equipment always working)
2. Be creative (add another camera…)
3. Use the board for summaries
4. In the meeting:
 Give priority to people who are remote
 Make sure everybody is aligned by asking remote people if they understood
 Turn the attention of people who “forget” the remote people
 Bring the board to the camera

Atlassian
https://www.atlassian.com/agile/rem
ote-teams
The Death of the Office
http://2ndscale.com/rtomayko/2012/
adopt-an-open-source-process-
constraints
Panda strike: Flaws in agile
https://www.pandastrike.com/posts/2
0150304-agile
Good Strategies
https://www.scrumalliance.org/comm
unity/articles/2015/september/must-
have-strategies-in-distributed-agile

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