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Enabling Remote Work and Distributed Teams

This fast-paced, hands-on workshop teaches you and your teams how to thrive in a world where everyone is working from home. Our experts have led and coached many virtual teams in their own work, and in this workshop, they share their expertise with you.

The shift to remote work may feel sudden, but for many it’s nothing new. Enterprise technology and project teams in particular have been overcoming the challenges of being distributed for quite some time. This is good news, as there’s a robust body of knowledge and many good practices available to draw from. There’s also a wide range of tools available to support them. In fact, many recent trends in both practices and tools are specifically designed with remote and distributed teams in mind. We’ll show you how to use them, and quickly equip you for productivity in the world of remote work.

Duration

days4 hours of instruction

Education Credits

4 PDUs

Public Classroom Pricing

Starting at: $295(USD)

$400(CAD)

GSA Price: $215.35

Group Rate: $245

Private Group Pricing

Have a group of 5 or more students? Request special pricing for private group training today.

Get the full details on this course. Download the .PDF Brochure below:

Part 1: Introduction – White Collar Labor Statistics and Current Trends

Setting a context for remote & virtual enablement
What do teams need?
Responsibilities of the employer
Responsibilities of the employee

Part 2: Categories of Remote Work

Team collaboration
Project management & project work
Coaching
Training & learning
Everything else

Group Exercise: Take an inventory of how you’re already working remotely

Part 3: What’s Already Working: 10 Best Practices

Daily ceremonies
Classes of communication urgency
Feedback mechanisms
Mobbing & swarming
Working agreements
Continuously integrating
A guide to wikis
File sharing & naming conventions
Remote etiquette
Introduction to tools

Part 4: Overcoming Common Challenges

Engagement
Accountability
Time & priority management
Productivity
Policy constraints and technical challenges

Group Discussion: Where’s the water cooler?

Part 5: Managing Expectations

Using prework for groups
Prerequisites and test requirements
How to approach accountability
Establishing goals
Metrics for effectiveness
Results vs. activities

Demo: A rubric for expectations

Part 6: Security: More Important Than Ever

Common risks associated with remote work
Understanding technical vulnerability
Key behaviors for secure remote teams
The importance of straightforward policy
Balancing security with flexibility

Part 7: A Primer on Distributed Collaboration Tools

Tools for projects
Tools for teams
Tools for meetings
Tools for organizational alignment

Group exercise: Story mapping with Mural

Part 8: A Primer on Distributed Engineering Tools

What’s possible in the cloud
Tools overview: distributed IT services
Tools overview: version control
Tools overview: configuration & automation
Tools overview: containers & architecture
Tools overview: patterns and antipatterns

Part 9: Conclusion: Next Steps and Q&A

Guided by your expert facilitator, we’ll spend some time committing to specific next steps you can use as soon as you leave the workshop to be more effective as a remote workforce.

Managers and team members
Project and product teams
Sales and marketing teams
HR staff
Anyone responsible for tools, licenses, or policy
Small and medium businesses just getting started with remote work
Anyone new to working from home or remotely

Rapidly adopt best practices for working as a distributed team
Select and adopt tools for supporting distributed work
Understand the different types of remote work and how to navigate them
Maintain productivity, engagement, and accountability while working remotely
Overcome common objections, roadblocks and distractions
Successfully stay connected with teams and colleagues
Navigate cloud-enabled technologies to support projects and technical work
Measure and track the productivity of your own distributed teams