Covid forced most teams to go remote.

What’s the impact / challenges of going from co-located to remote

Re-creating trust and transparency that comes from co-located work
Using confluence as a way to get information prior to a meeting, then focussing the meeting on covering the content
Planning regular sessions to connect in person

Mindsets/approaches to be more productive at meetings

Take ten minutes to read the memo before getting into the meat of the meeting
Instead of using the meeting for status updates, have everyone write down the status in a document together at the begining of the meeting and then review and discuss as a group
Less status meetings and more work session
Focus on metrics to communicate if things are on target
Live dashboard become useful to communicate to a wider group the status of things

Using virtual hands so that people don’t dominate a conversation
Use anon Q&A to allow people to speak up that wouldn’t normally speak up - but use a moderator approach to make sure questions are for the right forum.

Being conscious of the timezones that people are in - these are the peoples working hours
Being inclusive of people in timezones out of your area is hard
Record meetings so people can watch it async
Sometimes just have the meeting twice or X times for each timezone
Sometimes for really important meetings people will need to start/work late to attend - make sure that is balanced
Rethink teams to make sure teams are in the same timezone so that their normal collaboration works well

Donut - randomly places you with people to schedule meetings that you haven’t met with
Retros being recorded in slack so you have notes to refer back to
Having video on while in a meeting so people can feel involved and included
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