With several years of remote work experience in an agile environment, working from beautiful Zagreb for clients abroad and trying out different distributed team setups, we will share the motivation and philosophy behind it. We will also cover best practices, challenges and general tips & tricks in different segments such as work organisation, technical requirements, social requirements, methodology etc. This talk is recommended for all developers who want to start working remotely or improve the way they already do it, employers who consider establishing distributed teams inside of their companies and clients searching for partners who have distributed teams.

1. When remote work
really works
The secrets behind successful distributed teams
Jurica Križanić @jkrizanic
Marija Malkoč Kušt @mmkust

2. 1. About us
2. Motivation
3. Company strategy
4. Semi-distributed teams
5. How we do it
6. Technical prerequisites
TODAY’S AGENDA

3. ABOUT US

4. Jurica
Marija

6. MOTIVATIONWHY WORK REMOTELY?

7. EMPLOYEE
● Location that fits you
● Improved work life balance
● People from different countries and cultures
● Easier relocation and staying with the same company
Photo by Shridhar Gupta on Unsplash

8. EMPLOYER / CLIENT
● Wider market of partners
● Access to more talents
● More productive and happier employees
● Optimized costs
Photo by Hunters Race on Unsplash

9. COMPANY
STRATEGY

10. COMPANY STRATEGY
Prepare carefully and know your people

11. COMPANY STRATEGY
Prepare carefully and know your clients

12. COMPANY STRATEGY
Prepare carefully and invest

13. COMPANY STRATEGY
Be transparent and adjust
WE WANT YOU

14. COMPANY STRATEGY
Be transparent and define the setup
NEW PROJECT

15. COMPANY STRATEGY
Be transparent and give guidelines
BEST
PRACTICES

16. SEMI-
DISTRIBUTED
TEAMS

17. A STORY ABOUT
PERSPECTIVE AND MINORITY
Zagreb
Munich
Nuremberg
Regensburg
Stakeholder

18. A STORY ABOUT
PERSPECTIVE AND MINORITY
Zagreb
Munich
Nuremberg
Regensburg
Stakeholder

19. A STORY ABOUT
PERSPECTIVE AND MINORITY
Zagreb
Munich
Nuremberg
Regensburg
Stakeholder

20. A STORY ABOUT
PERSPECTIVE AND MINORITY
Zagreb
Munich
Nuremberg
Regensburg
Stakeholder

21. HOW WE DO ITBEST PRACTICES / CHALLENGES / TIPS & TRICKS

22. TRANSPARENT & OPEN
COMMUNICATION
Photo by Bud Helisson on Unsplash
● mindset
● communication tools
● collaboration tools

23. PROACTIVITY
● mindset
● location and physical distance
● equal team member

24. TRUST & RESPECT -
IN ALL DIRECTIONS
● mindset
● customer - team
● team - customer
● team member - team member

25. EXPERIENCE AND PRACTICES
● don’t take the trial-and-error approach
● exchange experiences with others
● apply best practices
● adjust because there is no universal answer

26. BEING AGILE
SCRUM MASTER
INSPECT ADAPT

27. WHY IS THIS GUY SO SAD?
Because his colleague Marko...
did not turn on his camera
does not use his headset
has a terrible Internet connection
is talking in Italian
had a meeting Željko did not
know about
did not join the meeting on time
all of the above

28. WHY IS THIS GUY SO SAD?
Because his colleague Marko...
did not turn on his camera
does not use his headset
has a terrible Internet connection
is talking in Italian
had a meeting Željko did not
know about
did not join the meeting on time
all of the above✔

29. TECHNICAL
PREREQUISITESCONNECTION / HARDWARE / SOFTWARE & CO

30. DO NOT VISIT
THE TECHNICAL MUSEUM
Photo: British Science Museum Group Collection

31. WHAT ARE THEY DOING?

32. WHO ARE THOSE PEOPLE?

33. MUCH BETTER!

34. THE EVOLUTION OF A
SEMI-DISTRIBUTED TEAM

35. THE EVOLUTION OF A
SEMI-DISTRIBUTED TEAM

36. THE EVOLUTION OF A
SEMI-DISTRIBUTED TEAM

37. THE ALTERNATIVE FOR A
SEMI-DISTRIBUTED TEAM

38. VIRTUAL OFFICE COMMUNICATION

39. AWAY FROM THE WATER COOLER

40. MEETING TOOLS

41. MEETING RULES

42. PAIR PROGRAMMING
● Slack
● Visual Studio Code
● Floobits for IntelliJ, Sublime etc.
● Saros, AWS Cloud9 (no Java), Atom

43. PEER REVIEW & DOCUMENTATION

44. RETRIUM

45. REALTIME BOARD

46. TRELLO RETRO BOARD

47. THANK YOU