Remote team management. How to manage remote teams: challenges, hiring, building the team, agile management, communication, case study.

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