The document outlines key aspects of remote team management, highlighting differences such as communication barriers, team bonding challenges, and supervision issues. It discusses effective hiring practices and identifies desirable candidate traits like self-motivation and resilience. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of communication tools and agile management principles to enhance teamwork and flexibility.

1. Remote team
management

2. Agenda
• How is a Remote Team different?
• Hiring the right people
• Building the team
• Agile management in remote teams
• Communication
• The Challenge – case study

3. How is a Remote Team different?
• Lack of day-to-day communication;
• Harder team bonding;
• Less support from the Boss;
• Language dependency;
• Timezones;
• Motivation; and
• Supervision and monitoring.

4. Hiring the right people
• How to make recruitment effective?
– Agencies;
– Phone calls;
– Video communicators; and
– Live intervievs.
• Features of a perfect candidate:
– Self-motivated;
– Responsible; and
– Resilent.

5. Building the team
• Welcome to the team;
• Team sites;
• Periodic team meetings;
• One-to-ones;
• Recognising work well done;
• Link to the top management; and
• Meeting the manager face to face.

6. Agile management in remote teams
• Is Agile possible in a remote team?
• How to become flexible?
• Important rules:
– Timeliness;
– Responsiveness;
– Trust; and
– Delegation.

7. Communication
• E-mail;
• Cheap online communicator;
• Conference calls;
• Video conferences;
• Telepresence;
• Face to face meetings;
• Productivity tools.

8. The Challenge – case study

9. Questions