This is a speech that I gave in New Zealand Christchurch for Christchurch Agile Professionals Network Meetup. Here I talk about my experiences to build a startup team/company that is full remote and distributed in agile

1. How to create an
agile full-remote and
distributed startup?

2. HELLO!
My name is Thomas Kuryura
A Brazilian Agile Coach working with startups and remote
teams
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3. WHAT IS AGILITY SCALES
A platform to help
companies, teams and
individuals to be
shapeshifters and better
adapt and achieve business
agility.
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4. COMPANY PURPOSE
“Every collaborator should be able to explain the
company purpose to their grandparents.”
Question - Do your teams know their purpose and
live by it?
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Face to face meetings

6. FACE TO FACE MEETINGS
“Remote teams should meet at least every
quarter”
Question - How many of your teams has recurring
off-site meetings? (Team building, Inception, etc)
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7. Team values exercise
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8. TEAM VALUES
“Team values should be made early and used
often.”
Question - How many of your teams has defined
values that are often used?
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9. TEAM AGREEMENTS
▰ We do 5 min of chit chat every meeting
▰ We share our vacation with our team
▰ Take the issue directly to the person that you
have issue with
Question - If you ask: “What are the agreements
of this team?” what will be their answer?
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10. Fun & Gamification
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Fun & Gamification

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Fun & Gamification

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Fun & Gamification

14. FUN AND GAMIFICATION
▰ Add some fun factor
▰ Follow by serious talks
▰ Use Gamification to influence habits and
behavior (Gamified retrospectives)
Question - Are copying from somewhere or are
you creating your own activities?
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15. Compensation
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16. DEFINING COMPENSATION
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▰ You can choose any amount of compensation.
▰ But you have to write an essay mentioning why you
want that amount.
▰ Other members of your team should read and agree
with it.
▰ All essays and individual compensations are
transparent to the team.

17. TRANSPARENT COMPENSATION
▰ First of all ask why do you want it
▰ Done correctly will reinforce values, behavior
and clarity
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18. DAILY
▰ Move the traditional scrum daily
asynchronous
▰ Daily meetings are in Lean Coffee format
▰ Quick decisions are made on the Daily
▰ Bigger decisions are moved to a separate
meeting
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19. GOALS
▰ Objectives/Goals are needed to have
alignment
▰ Be careful of OKRs
▰ People will have to learn a lot in metrics
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20. What is the secret sauce?
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21. Feedback
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22. FEEDBACK
▰ Group feedback - Feedback canvas
▰ Peer recognition - Disco slack bot
▰ 1on1 feedback - Donut slack bot
Question - What are the feedback practices on
your team or do you think it is an HR thing?
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23. Experiments
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24. Lead by example
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25. REMOTE WORK
It’s not hard to work with
remote teams, it’s just a
different way of working.
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26. WORK WITH STARTUPS
Conventional ways of
teaching/mentoring will
never work, use creative
hands-on approaches that
favors fun and reflection.
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27. LINKS TO ALL ACTIVITIES
Team Values exercise - https://app.mindsettlers.com/guide/4Uc6ijx4ViQAGAoMMUkkYa
Hanabi Feedback - https://app.mindsettlers.com/guide/5o9WfkZZcsCKQUgsSUEIa8
Team Agreements - https://app.mindsettlers.com/guide/1WtNEPUcvKw428SmEC0ca2
Elementary retrospective - https://app.mindsettlers.com/guide/4WylDcnrmgOaqmICKoUuqa
Feedback Canvas - https://app.mindsettlers.com/guide/5EZhTqT744YkkqU8c4Ec6y
Daily Cafe - https://app.mindsettlers.com/guide/2YwVZWn3xeU4A0WU0CMgWg
Perfection Game - https://app.mindsettlers.com/guide/34Xp8lFoEwKOYkgSiuukOW
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THANKS!
Any questions?
You can find me at
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomaskuryura/