Remote Team Working

This was the focal point of Euan Finlay's (Senior Engineer – Financial Times) talk at Codemotion Milan 2019. Thanks to his experience, he was able to express his opinions and suggestions on this increasingly present reality in our world, the IT sector, which we can actually experience first-hand here at Walit.

Even when adopting flexible and distributed work teams, whether remote or in distributed companies, the road to success isn't always easy. Each type of team will have its own benefits and needs to maintain a peaceful yet productive environment. The most important step to achieving these results is certainly limiting and overcoming communication issues within the team. Chat isn't our only means, but it's certainly the most limited. There are various tools that adapt to our needs, such as: -Google Meet -VS code sharing -Google Jamboard

Giving your team the ability to create private channels in addition to the service chats is a great incentive for team building and helps mitigate cultural and linguistic differences. This is followed by the importance of holding effective meetings; you can find more on this topic in the following article. blog , recommended by Euan himself! To improve the team's technical capabilities, it's helpful to conduct pair programming sessions and livestream individual knowledge alignment sessions so they can share their skills with other members.

To conclude, we continue by listing the benefits that emerge from this approach, which are certainly flexibility, the possibility of recruiting from a wider group of people, and the ability to improve the team's diversity in terms of responsibilities.