Remote Team Interactions Workbook

Remote Team Interactions Workbook
Author: Matthew Skelton
Publisher: IT Revolution
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2022-04-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1950508625

In the new remote-first and hybrid workplace, many organizations are struggling to catch up with new tooling and ways of working. Many are discovering for the first time that the physical office was covering up poorly defined teams and poorly defined areas of focus, threatening their DevOps transformation efforts and the overall health and success of their business. Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais, coauthors of the highly successful Team Topologies, provide proven patterns for a successful remote-first approach to teams. Using simple tools for dependency tracking and patterns from Team Topologies, such as the Team API, organizations will find that well-defined team interactions are key to effective IT delivery in the remote-first world. This workbook explores several aspects of team-first remote work, including: •How the new “remote-first” world is highlighting existing poor team interactions within organizations. •Why organizations should use the Team API pattern to define and communicate the focus of teams. •How organizations can track and remove team-level dependencies. •How and why organizations should design inter-team communications consciously. •How and why organizations can use the three team interaction modes from Team Topologies (collaboration, x-as-a-service, and facilitating) to help. The ideas and patterns presented here will help your organization become more effective with a team-based, remote-first approach to building and running software systems.

Team Topologies

Team Topologies
Author: Matthew Skelton
Publisher: IT Revolution
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2019-09-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1942788827

Effective software teams are essential for any organization to deliver value continuously and sustainably. But how do you build the best team organization for your specific goals, culture, and needs? Team Topologies is a practical, step-by-step, adaptive model for organizational design and team interaction based on four fundamental team types and three team interaction patterns. It is a model that treats teams as the fundamental means of delivery, where team structures and communication pathways are able to evolve with technological and organizational maturity. In Team Topologies, IT consultants Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais share secrets of successful team patterns and interactions to help readers choose and evolve the right team patterns for their organization, making sure to keep the software healthy and optimize value streams. Team Topologies is a major step forward in organizational design for software, presenting a well-defined way for teams to interact and interrelate that helps make the resulting software architecture clearer and more sustainable, turning inter-team problems into valuable signals for the self-steering organization.

75+Team Building Activities for Remote Teams

75+Team Building Activities for Remote Teams
Author: Christopher Littlefield
Publisher:
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2020-10-03
Genre:
ISBN:

This book is for leaders committed to building a great remote team culture, but who don't have time or know where to start. Whether you're new to remote work or have been working remotely for years, there's enough on your plate already without thinking about how to connect with and engage your team. I wrote this book to do just that and take one thing off your to-do list.The book is intentionally short: low on reading and high on actions.It's organized in such a way that you can open it five minutes before your meeting to grab a quick game or sit down to plan a longer virtual team retreat. In the first few pages you will find a Quick Reference Guide to help you find exactly what you need.You will have access to 75+ activity ideas and hundreds of questions to help make your remote meetings, one on ones, and day-to-day virtual interactions more engaging.Beyond games, you will find team reflection activities, stay conversation questions, a unique end of the year team celebration idea, and more. You will also find simple ways to virtually learn, stay healthy, and celebrate together as a team.The only thing you need to do is take action.Free BonusesWhen you purchase this book, you will gain access to copies of the following free handouts and downloads:75+ Team Building Activities Quick Reference GuideA printable quick reference of the book to keep on your desk with reminders of key concepts, sample meeting agendas, and more.Know Your People FormA form to track all the information you should know about your people.COVID-19 ResourcesQuestions to help you understand what your people are facing each day, a list of five things that should be on every virtual meeting agenda, and tips to help your team consciously transition back to work when the time comes.One Year Subscription to the Beyond Thank You Remote Team "Nudge"When you download the free bonus, you will have the opportunity to sign up for the Beyond Thank You Remote Team "Nudge." Every two weeks, I will send out activities, meeting prompts, and other ideas from this book directly to your email - a little nudge to remind you to take action. If these are unhelpful, you can unsubscribe any time.

Remote Work Revolution

Remote Work Revolution
Author: Tsedal Neeley
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2021-03-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 006306832X

LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR “I often talk about the importance of trust when it comes to work: the trust of your employees and building trust with your customers. This book provides a blueprint for how to build and maintain that trust and connection in a digital environment.” —Eric S. Yuan, founder and CEO of Zoom A Harvard Business School professor and leading expert in virtual and global work provides remote workers and leaders with the best practices necessary to perform at the highest levels in their organizations. The rapid and unprecedented changes brought on by Covid-19 have accelerated the transition to remote working, requiring the wholesale migration of nearly entire companies to virtual work in just weeks, leaving managers and employees scrambling to adjust. This massive transition has forced companies to rapidly advance their digital footprint, using cloud, storage, cybersecurity, and device tools to accommodate their new remote workforce. Experiencing the benefits of remote working—including nonexistent commute times, lower operational costs, and a larger pool of global job applicants—many companies, including Twitter and Google, plan to permanently incorporate remote days or give employees the option to work from home full-time. But virtual work has it challenges. Employees feel lost, isolated, out of sync, and out of sight. They want to know how to build trust, maintain connections without in-person interactions, and a proper work/life balance. Managers want to know how to lead virtually, how to keep their teams motivated, what digital tools they’ll need, and how to keep employees productive. Providing compelling, evidence-based answers to these and other pressing issues, Remote Work Revolution is essential for navigating the enduring challenges teams and managers face. Filled with specific actionable steps and interactive tools, this timely book will help team members deliver results previously out of reach. Following Neeley’s advice, employees will be able to break through routine norms to successfully use remote work to benefit themselves, their groups, and ultimately their organizations.

Leading from Anywhere

Leading from Anywhere
Author: David Burkus
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2021-01-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0358533279

The ultimate guide to leading remote employees and teams, tackling the key challenges that managers face-from hiring and onboarding new members to building culture remotely, tracking productivity, communicating speedily, and retaining star employees

Making Work Visible

Making Work Visible
Author: Dominica DeGrandis
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2017-10-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781942788157

Information Technology time management expert Dominica DeGrandis, the reveals the real crime of the century--time theft, one of the most costly factors impacting enterprises in their day-to-day operations. The solution to preventing these value stream delays? Make the work visible. In this timely book (title not final), solutions and preventative measures are illustrated and methodologies outlined for immediate application into daily work.

Site Reliability Engineering

Site Reliability Engineering
Author: Niall Richard Murphy
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Total Pages: 552
Release: 2016-03-23
Genre:
ISBN: 1491951176

The overwhelming majority of a software system’s lifespan is spent in use, not in design or implementation. So, why does conventional wisdom insist that software engineers focus primarily on the design and development of large-scale computing systems? In this collection of essays and articles, key members of Google’s Site Reliability Team explain how and why their commitment to the entire lifecycle has enabled the company to successfully build, deploy, monitor, and maintain some of the largest software systems in the world. You’ll learn the principles and practices that enable Google engineers to make systems more scalable, reliable, and efficient—lessons directly applicable to your organization. This book is divided into four sections: Introduction—Learn what site reliability engineering is and why it differs from conventional IT industry practices Principles—Examine the patterns, behaviors, and areas of concern that influence the work of a site reliability engineer (SRE) Practices—Understand the theory and practice of an SRE’s day-to-day work: building and operating large distributed computing systems Management—Explore Google's best practices for training, communication, and meetings that your organization can use

Connections Workbook

Connections Workbook
Author: Jill S. Levenson
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2001
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780761921936

Complements the authors' Treating non-offending parents in child sexual abuse cases. Connections helps professionals to make informed, research-based assessments of risk, offering strategies for supporting and educating families within which sexual abuse has occurred.

The Async-First Playbook

The Async-First Playbook
Author: Sumeet Gayathri Moghe
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2023-09-20
Genre:
ISBN: 0138187614

Reimagining Agile for Distributed and Remote Teams Distributed work is now inevitable, but conventional agile approaches are too "synchronous" for today's remote teams. Meetings, ceremonies, and rituals can become unsustainable when teams are scattered across the globe. The result: burnout, constant interruptions, a lack of deep work, poor work-life balance, greater frustration, and workplaces with poor diversity. In The Async-First Playbook, Thoughtworks Principal Product Manager Sumeet Gayathri Moghe provides tools and techniques to embed remote-native, asynchronous practices into traditional agile methods, making remote work more efficient, inclusive, thoughtful, and fun. Drawing on extensive experience leading distributed teams, Moghe addresses the "nuts and bolts" of specific practices and the crucial "softer" elements such as culture, mindset, and leadership. Short, practical chapters show how to adapt traditional agile techniques such as sprints and pair programming for the realities of today's distributed environments. Whatever your project, you'll learn how to create asynchronous environments that promote success, improve the workplace experience, and deliver better results. Discover why asynchronous collaboration is crucial to your project's success Learn the tools, skills, and protocols you need to get right in order to go "async-first" Map current agile techniques to async-first versions that better reflect today's realities Become a more supportive and effective leader of async-first teams Anticipate, navigate, and mitigate the pitfalls of async-first distributed work Bring it all together--walk through your async-first transition Access valuable resources, examples, and hands-on templates at the companion website "This playbook will empower you to lead and build differently. All that you need is an open mind and a belief that the status quo isn't worthy of defining the future." --From the Foreword by Darren Murph Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.

DISC - Remote Team Training Workbook

DISC - Remote Team Training Workbook
Author: Jason Hedge
Publisher:
Total Pages: 45
Release: 2020-04-11
Genre:
ISBN:

DISC is a powerful tool to help remote online teams work better together. The DISC assessment is a measurement of behavioral tendencies - how you go about doing things. Understanding the differences between ourselves and others helps create understanding and connection. Remote teams need to be aware of other's differences more than ever to overcome the restrictions of online-only work. This training is different and is designed specifically for remote teams that only meet online. Participants using this workbook can use the free online Mini-Assessment to identify their primary DISC Style, take notes about all four DISC Styles and track down where their team falls on the Team Wheel. Bonus: As new team members are added to the team, they can use the Self-Study portion to catch up on the training while asking others about the team exerience to learn what they learned. Leaders of Remote Teams often have a difficult time translating group training into the online world. This program allows them to easily integrate an interactive training will little to no preparation. Team Leaders: Register online at disc-u.org/onlineteamleader for resources to help you organize the training to maximize participation and ROI. Simply purchase and send a copy to each team member, register and start the training. You do not need any formal training or presentation skills to create a great online DISC training, just: Purchase a workbook for each person on your team, Register at www.DISC-u.org/onlineteamleader to access resources and video links and Set up a team video conference. Got questions about this material? Email the author at [email protected]. He LOVES to help!