Developing Software Remotely and Asynchronously - Talk a Bit 2021

Remote has been gaining traction for a long time. Increasingly, companies around the world realize it's the future of work. But with it, many best practices and trends break down. Communicating and working synchronously is tricky when your team is distributed across the globe. Pair programming is hard, mob programming is harder, to name a few. So, how exactly do we collaborate effectively? How do we raise the quality bar as a team? How do we share knowledge, and keep others in the loop? Are there established and refined approaches from which we can draw inspiration?

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1. Developing software remotely and asynchronously
2. @goncalossilva j.mp/remote-async-dev-tb
3. Inspiration
4. Colocated & synchronous is tradition Remote & asynchronous is modern
5. Colocated & synchronous is traditionmodern Remote & asynchronous is moderntradition
6. Remote & asynchronous is tradition
13. Trust and control
14. Trust and control
15. Colocated & synchronous is relatively modern
19. Modern technology was born in this era
20. Modern technology was born in this era, and yet!
21. Linux
22. Linux
23. Automattic
24. ...and more
25. Contemporary remote work
26. Buffer’s State of Remote Work 2021
27. Learnings
28. Learn from ancient history Learn from modern history Learn from existing data
29. Learn from ancient history
30. Learn from ancient history
32. Learn from ancient history
34. Learn from ancient history
35. Learn from ancient history
36. Learn from modern history
37. Learn from modern history
39. Learn from modern history
41. Learn from modern history
42. Learn from existing data
43. Learn from existing data
45. Application
46. Transparency Documentation Writing well Deep focus Autonomy Peer reviews Pair programming
47. Transparency
48. Transparency
49. Documentation
50. Documentation
51. Documentation
52. Documentation
53. Documentation
54. Documentation
55. Documentation
56. Writing well
57. Writing well
58. Writing well 😉
59. Writing well
60. Writing well
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64. Writing well
65. ✓ Transparency ✓ Documentation ✓ Writing well Deep focus Autonomy Peer reviews Pair programming
66. Deep focus
67. Deep focus
68. Deep focus
69. Deep focus
70. Autonomy
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73. ✓ Transparency ✓ Documentation ✓ Writing well ✓ Deep focus ✓ Autonomy Peer reviews Pair programming
74. Peer reviews
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77. Pair programming
78. Pair programming
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81. ✓ Transparency ✓ Documentation ✓ Writing well ✓ Deep focus ✓ Autonomy ✓ Peer reviews ✓ Pair programming
82. @goncalossilva j.mp/remote-async-dev-tb