- Desk (height) & chair (comfort)
- Internet access (cable) & backup (mobile phone)
- Access to company infrastructure & tools (VPN / SaaS)
- Comfortable headphones / headset
- Make sure to have a separate room where you can close the door
- Attacks to remote working tools (e.g. Zoom URLs)
- Provide list of approved tools to your employees
- Check for approval of remote working tools from your Infosec
- Stick to routine
- Share calendar with your team
- Take regular breaks / set up an alarm
- Drink enough
- Stand-up & Stand-down
- Virtual coffee breaks
- Open social (video) chats
- End the week together
- Regular feedback (retrospectives), adapt WoW if necessary
- Show your children with whom you are talking to
- Let them participate in online conferencing (if possible)
- Do not ignore them / constantly send them away
- Agree upon times, when you do something together and stick to them
- take care of colleagues that are alone right now
- motivate them to do remote pairing
- invite them to social online events
- ensure safe environment (prime directive)
- think out loud (thoughts & actions)
- take breaks!
- rotate pairs & roles
- 5 sec rule
- agree on research time
- don't work ahead alone
- ask for and provide feedback, adapt WoW if necessary
- you easily get distracted
- do not expect an answer immediately
- do not disturb other people unnecessary
- first try to find an answer / solution on your own
- use the search to find a solution
- disable notifications for less-important channels / email / social media...
- Remote friendly
- Remote first
- Remote only
- avoid talking about satelites / remoties
- talk about distributed teams instead?
- Team Chat (Google Chat, Slack, Mattermost, RocketChat, MS Teams...)
- Video conferencing (Zoom, Skype, Hangouts...)
- Virtual Whiteboards (miro, mural)
- Scrum / Kanban boards (trello, JIRA, Azure DevOps...)
- Wiki (Confluence)