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Your last sentence pretty much summarises 90% of reasons why some companies won't go remote route. As a manager, one needs to understand what his team is workin
by cosmodisk 7y ago
Your last sentence pretty much summarises 90% of reasons why some companies won't go remote route.
As a manager, one needs to understand what his team is working on and how they do it. If a person can't understand underlying work or processes,then hi shouldn't be a manager.Also,while one doesn't necessarily need to be a dev to be able to manage devs, ability to understand problems and time required to solve them is crucial.
- dmos62 7y ago> one needs to understand what his team is working on and how they do it A project I'm working on is solving this with regular check-ins, where everyone summarizes what they were+are+will be doing. I'm interested in how others approach this.
- house9-2 7y agoRight, standard _agile_ daily stand up should help. My team does daily video stand up (it is good to see the team face to face each day) but if too many timezones involved slack channel updates can work just fine. Remote teams are ideally communicating with each other throughout each day.
- hackinthebochs 7y ago>My team does daily video stand up Imagine forcing remote people to get presentable just for a 10 minute daily standup
- ptcampbell 7y agoOnly one half of you needs to be.
- dmos62 7y agoAlso you only care about optics. You can wing olfaction.
- blaser-waffle 7y agoHell, depending on where your camera is -- in my case on the left -- you only need one quarter.
- bcrosby95 7y agoMy manager just pings me via IM when he gets up on what the status of my current work is. And I respond when I start working (he usually starts an hour before me). I'm more senior at my company, so when I notice more junior people get on I like to ping them via IM to make sure they aren't having any problems with what they're working on.