Andrea Darabos & Tomomi Sasaki - “Work at Any Time” is even better! - Agile Tampere 2022
Channel: Agile Finland
Date: 2022-12-23

“Work from Anywhere” is great. “Work at Any Time” is even better!

As many teams and organizations experimented with Work From Home over the last 2 years, so did our use of office communications translate to an abundance of Online meetings. An average knowledge worker spends at least 40% of their working hours on video meetings. This synchronous collaboration of endless Zoom and Teams meetings can lead to feelings of being overwhelmed at the least, in some cases, to complete burnout.

But there is a cure – We can summarize it in 2 steps:

Shifting some of our real-time collaboration to a more asynchronous, non-real-time collaboration
Replacing verbal interaction (voice, meetings) to a documentation-oriented, workflow based collaboration
This talk will resonate with many of You in the agile community already committed to the power of visual workflows. We will aim to inspire and challenge You a bit further towards the edges and explore:

How might we default to asynchronous first collaboration?
What might be the benefits – both personal and organizational – if we do that?
Is there a right balance between the familiar synchronous time use and the asynchronous time for each team?

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Andrea Darabos is an agile coach and organizational change consultant. Her team helps clients achieve more adaptable organizations – they form self-managing teams and focus these teams to rapidly validate business ideas or to scale up proven business models. Andrea is the founder of the London-based consultancy Lean Advantage, who work with various international banks, online retailers, telcos and IT solution developers. Find Andrea on Twitter @adarabos

Tomomi Sasaki is a designer, facilitator and coach, interested in how we design the conditions for independent-minded individuals to grow and thrive together. She is a partner at the Tokyo/Paris-based design studio AQ, working on digital product and customer experience challenges for a wide range of international clients. Say hi on Twitter @tomomiq.