Workshop Continuous Improvement in Remote / Distributed Teams

Working with remote or distributed teams can be challenging. Distance and time differences make it more difficult to work together and to collaboratively improve the way of working.

While remote or distributed teams can certainly have advantages over collocated teams, their benefits can only be reaches if teams know how to find effective ways to collaborate and communicate and become able to improve continuously.

Improving remote collaboration

Some of the main challenges that remote or distributed teams have are:

Establishing ongoing communication between team members
Coordinating and synchronize the work that needs to be done
Changing the way the work is done while keeping alignment between different locations where the work is done
Dealing with cultural differences and establishing trust between team members

This workshop helps teams to explore the way that they are collaborating and communicating and to find ways to improve to become more effective as a remote or distributed team.

In the workshop you will learn to:

Define shared goals, values and principles to work together in an effective way
Establish a culture where people respect and trust each other and are open and honest
Manage the balance between dependency and autonomy of team members at different locations
How to do agile self-assessments and remote retrospectives to reflect on the way of working
Define and execute actions to improve collaboration and communication
Improve using tools for collaboration and communications

This workshop is intended for: