How to Get Remote Teams to High Perform
Tags: agile, development, management, remote
Published: 2024-06-05 06:10:51


## How to Get Remote Teams to High Perform

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Raise your hand in case you feel confused about project progress. How often do you ask about the current status in [*Slack](https://slack.com)*?

We have seen such problems and would like to present our **5** **techniques** to have a **transparent process** and build **trust** within the team both internally and externally.

## Ask for Asynchronous Stand-ups — to keep you in the loop

Communication is key, but developers find 500 reasons to skip it.

They are busy with more important activities like product development advancing. But “being busy” should not become a sacrifice of trust-building with other members.

We found a solution to this problem — *Async Text Stand-ups*. This is the best tool to have an over-communication in the team.

Every day, we share the following via *Slack*: a snapshot of progress, and a vision of what’s next. It eliminates the waste of time on developers' micro-management.

Also, we have *Weekly High-Overview “Stand-up”*. Compared to daily stand up, here we share team overall results, problems of the last week, and next week's goals.

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**Tools:** [*Slack](https://slack.com)*

### Good posts on how to do this right:

* [Slack Tips Tuesday: How a Developer’s Daily Update Should Look](https://x-team.com/blog/developer-daily-standup/)

* [Take most out of async textual stand-ups](https://blog.arkency.com/2014/06/async-standups/)

## Setup Kanban Board — to see the state of every piece of work

Kanban resolves so many problems: scheduling, monitoring, and debugging problems of your process. It’s the best tool for *Lean Startup* followers.

Several lists will help you to be on the same page: *Roadmap*, *Backlog*, *Ready*, *In Progress*, *Verify*, *Done*.

**Tools:** [*GitHub](https://github.com)*

### Make it right by following:

* [Delivery Flow for Distributed Remote Teams](https://jtway.co/delivery-flow-for-distributed-remote-teams-5218828b0d1a)

* [Manage priorities and visualize progress with a lightweight process](https://thoughtbot.com/playbook/planning/manage-priorities-with-a-lightweight-process)

* [What is a Kanban Board?](https://leankit.com/learn/kanban/kanban-board/)

## Share Roadmap — to build only what matters

Before starting working on a schedule, developers need to understand where they are going to be and what result is expected. Roadmap is a great tool to share vision and strategy.

Put *Roadmap* in front of developers. We found a Hierarchical Kanban Board Structure very handy to store Roadmap.

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To build *Roadmap* we ask questions like: where will you be in **3 weeks**, **3 months,** and **3 years?**

**Tools:** [*GitHub](https://github.com)*

### Do not forget to check:

* [The 666 roadmap](https://blog.intercom.com/666-product-roadmap/)

## Schedule Rapid Delivers — to get small wins

Achieve a long-term goal is great — but this is a relatively rare thing to happen.

The good news is that even small wins can boost inner work life tremendously.

We split our work into **2 days** size atomic units. This prevents bottlenecks and gets the working process much faster.

**Tools:** [CircleCI](https://circleci.com)

### Learn more:

* [The Power of Small Wins](https://hbr.org/2011/05/the-power-of-small-wins)

## Organize Regular Check-In — for engagement

Working without appreciations will make you a soulless machine. It’s killing all the fun.

On check-ins, you can organize retrospectives and provide feedback to the team. Agile Retrospective is a good practice to run experiments.

Regular check-in is a good opportunity to select what is the matter now. It is making everyone feel included as a team.

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**Tools:** [Hangouts](https://hangouts.google.com/)

### Hey, have you checked this:

* [Atlassian’s Team Play: Retrospective](https://www.atlassian.com/team-playbook/plays/retrospective)

## Synopsis

In the post we covered such techniques:

* Asynchronous Daily Text Stand-ups

* Kanban Board

* Roadmap

* Deliver By Small Chunks

* Monthly Retrospectives & Regular Feedback

**Paul Keen** is an Open Source Contributor and a Chief Technology Officer at [JetThoughts](https://www.jetthoughts.com). Follow him on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-keen/) or [GitHub](https://github.com/pftg).
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