Culture Nuggets, Culture, and the Benefits of Co-location I'll share a story about my co-workers' chicken nugget experiment and how that relates to our company culture's emphasis on co-location.
Atomic Thinking Take the Stress Out of Social Planning for Distributed Teams When you’re separated by a few-hour car ride, social plans aren’t easy. Here are a few tips that keep our distributed team connected.
Project & Team Management How to Build Momentum During Project Onboarding During project onboarding with a new set of colleagues, it's important to kick off on the right foot so everyone makes the finish line!
Project & Team Management Tips for Working on a Team in Multiple Time Zones A great way to build sustainability in a cross-time-zone team is to be empathetic and mindful of your teammates' local time.
Effective communication Don’t Mute on Zoom! Once we allow ourselves and our peers to get it wrong without judgment, we can unmute on Zoom, and have fully productive and healthy conversations.
Project & Team Management 50 Segue Questions for Software Teams Below is a list of tried-and-true segue questions (icebreakers) to get people talking and connecting on software teams or anywhere else.
UX & Design Future Press Releases: An Alternative Way Writing a Future Press Release is a powerful Design Thinking exercise. Here's an alternative way to achieve the same results remotely or in person.
Project & Team Management Bringing a Team Together – 5 Things to Do at the Beginning of a Project The beginning of a project can be overwhelming. Here are five things I like to do to figure out how to get started and how to keep the team moving.
Project & Team Management How to Facilitate a Knowledge Transfer Remotely Although it's not ideal, knowledge transfers can be held remotely. Go into them with a game plan, but be ready to change course if necessary.
Project & Team Management Remote-First Communication for Project Teams Remote-first communication prioritizes communicating with those who are not here now – including anyone who'll work on the project in the future (like you).
Project & Team Management Tools & Practices for Remote Teams, Part 2 – Communicate, Communicate, Communicate! Team morale, cohesion, and communication are vital to every team's success — and they take considerably more effort with a remote team.
Project & Team Management Tools & Practices for Remote Teams, Part 1 – Be Prepared Remote team success starts with the right attitude, infrastructure, and communication tools.