Airtouch is holding a seminar about Remote Working at Nextstars Accelerators in Paris. Best Practices, best tools and how to expand your horizons worldwide, all will be debated. For more information, follow the link http://www.meetup.com/fr/Nextstars/events/223172572/

1. AIRTOUCH NEW MEDIA
Location Based Mobile Marketing | Social Media | Mobile & Web Development
MADRID | PARIS | MEXICO | BUCHAREST

2. Remote team
working
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Tools and Best
Practices

3. Agenda
Remote Team Working
Benefits and Best Practices
AAK biography
Why remote work ?
Best practices for remote working
Tools for remote working + Project/ Task Management
Collaboration + File Sharing + Code Review
Example: Bucharest as remote destination

4. 01
C E O – Co Founder
Airtouch New Media
| Digital Executive | Cross-Cultural Teams
Management | Multilingual | Multicultural |
International Digital executive that had global responsabilities for an American company managing brands
and multicultural large teams spread in more than 4 countries and offices. He previously acted as
entrepreneur for others opening and managing the Spanish offices of important French startups that were
finally aquired by American companies and over the past years created his own Startups and invested in
others. He speaks fluently 3 languages and lived in more than 5 countries in the Americas, Europe and Asia.
Armando Avila Kramis

5. 03
Why Remote Work?
THANKS TO
INTERNET THE
WORLD IS OUR
LIMIT
NEW TRENDS:
STARTUPS ARE
MICRO-MULTI
NATIONALS
• Sell globally
• And Hire Globally????
• Why to limit to sell and hire locally ?
• Why don’t hire the best talent wherever it is ?
• Which are the global strengths per region and
profession ?
• Where is the highest quality of what I need?
• Where can I find cost efficiencies?
• Where can I have tax benefits ?
• Where do I have location/logistics benefits ?

6. Remote Activities Examples
04
Delocalized / Externalized
Development & QA
Tech Firms & Freelancers
Legal
Replaced by Law Firms
Communication
By PR Agencies
Design & UX
Agencies or & Freelancers
Finance Department
Venture Capital Funds

7. Best Practices for Remote working
Empowering communication, Collaboration and Transparency
02 Language should
not be an issue
05 Have an
ambassador per remote
destination to build and
maintain the
communication bridge
between locations
01 Have the right
profile of people
04 When possible have
people from both sides
flying to the other
03 Use complementary
productivity tools !
06 First time and
periodically important to
have a team video
conference to increase
knowledge of each other
and to discuss about
status of the project(s).
05
07 Periodically check
people and procedures
and make improvements
if needed

8. is the FREE, flexible,
and visual way to
organize anything with
anyone.
Keeping track of
project tasks, as well
as the overview of the
project
TRELLO
Trusted by millions,
Basecamp is the PAID
leading web-based
project management
and collaboration tool.
To-dos, files,
messages, schedules,
and milestones.
BASECAMP
Allows you to share
files and sync them
across any device.
FREE. All your files,
Any device, Offline
access.
DROPBOX
FREE. Between video,
voice and text chat, keeps
you connected with the
entire team. You can also
share your screen and do
Skype out to international
phone numbers.
SKYPE
the FREE All-In-One
Software
for Remote Support
over the internet to
control any computer
or Mac and Online
Meetings
TEAMVIEWER
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Tools to Work Remotely

9. JIRA is a PAID issue
tracking product,
developed by
Atlassian. It provides
bug tracking, issue
tracking, and project
management
functions.
JIRA
It is a PAID open-
source version control
system that provides a
great web-based
graphical interface;
GITHUB
Enables you to write
and execute
automated acceptance
tests of mobile apps.
It’s cross-platform. It’s
also open source and
FREE by Xamarin
CALABASH
Software developers in
a team can review
each other's
modifications on their
source code using a
Web browser and
approve or reject
those changes.
JENKINS
is a FREE, web-based
team code
collaboration tool. It
integrates closely with
Git, a distributed
version control system.
GERRIT
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Tools to Work Remotely

10. Tools for Remote working
(others)
• Collaborating or Chatting
–Slack: is great for one-on-one conversations or
with everyone
• Code review
–Review Board: is a powerful web-based code
review tool that offers developers an easy way to
handle code reviews. It scales well from small
projects to large companies and offers a variety
of tools to take much of the stress and time out
of the code review process.

11. Tools for Remote working
(others)
• Code Review
– Kallithea is a cross-platform, FREE source code management
system that supports two leading version control systems, Mercurial
and Git, and has a web interface that is easy to use for users and
admins, with features for collaboration, such as forking, pull
requests, code review, issue tracking.
– Crucible is a collaborative code review application by Australian
software company Atlassian, particularly tailored to distributed
teams, and facilitates review and commenting on code, integrating
with popular source control tools, such as Git and Subversion.

12. 08
Universities and IT Hubs
IT talents are cultivated in Romania’s top high-
schools that focus on mathematics and computer
science.
Bucharest
Located at the heart of Eastern Europe, Romania has
grown into an ideal software development location for
companies seeking highly technical and friendly work
force, cost-effective business environment at a nearby
location.
Technical Expertise
The software developers in Romania are highly
competent and experienced with various software
methodologies (both traditional and Agile),
technologies such as C, C++, .NET, Java, PHP,
Mobile.

13. 09
Bucharest as Remote Destination
400Km
Communication
Romanians speak English fluently, and are highly articulate. These skills are critical in
email and video conferencing.
Rates
One of Romania’s key strengths remains the competitive costs of
the workforce.
Culture
Romanians are generally cosmopolitan,
educated, fluent English speakers and
resourceful creative people.
Compatible Time Zone
The country’s time zone is compatible with
those of European countries (maximum of 2h
difference), and with U.S. during the day (2-3
hours of overlap).

14. Thanks!
AirtouchNM @ AirtouchNM AirtouchNM hello@airtouchmedia.com
MADRID | PARIS | MEXICO | BUCHAREST
Armando Avila Kramis
aavila@airtouchmedia.com
+34 659 436 519