The video on-demand of this session is available to logged in QCon attendees only. Please login to your QCon account to watch the session.

Session + Live Q&A

Remotely Operated: Managing Scattered Teams

Companies are increasingly recognizing the viability of remote teams, and many managers are finding them tasked with effectively supporting scattered teams. If a company has long embraced the remote model, then this support is done within the context of existing organizational structures and norms. However, if the company adopted the remote model under duress, then managers have to learn how to operate in new ways while learning new competencies. This talk will provide guidance for how managers can support remote teams and help them improve performance.


Speaker

Anjuan Simmons

Engineering Coach @helpscout

Anjuan Simmons is a technologist with a successful track record of delivering technology solutions from the user interface to the database. He combines his experiences working at Big 4 management consulting companies as well as small technology startups to implement practical solutions that can...

Read more
Find Anjuan Simmons at:

Date

Wednesday May 19 / 11:10AM EDT (40 minutes)

Track

Running Effective Remote Teams

Topics

Remote Teams

Add to Calendar

Add to calendar

Share

From the same track

Session + Live Q&A Remote Teams

Balancing Synchronous and Asynchronous Communication in Virtual Teams

Wednesday May 19 / 09:10AM EDT

Do back-to-back meetings, Zoom fatigue, overworking, and constant interruptions sound familiar? They are common complaints in teams that are struggling to balance synchronous and asynchronous communication.When individual contributors and managers adopt more asynchronous communication practices,...

Tammy Bjelland

CEO @Workplaceless

Session + Live Q&A Remote Teams

Hybrid-Remote Done Right: Evaluate the Remote Employee Experience

Wednesday May 19 / 10:10AM EDT

As the world has started to see some light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel with a decline in cases and the distribution of vaccines, employers and employees have begun to prepare for the return to the office in a hybrid-remote setting. For some, the return to the office cannot get here...

Kaleem Clarkson

Chief Operating Officer @blendmeinc

PANEL DISCUSSION + Live Q&A Remote Teams

Remote Teams Panel

Wednesday May 19 / 12:10PM EDT

In the individual sessions, we looked at working remotely from the personal through to the company as a whole. In this panel, we'll hear ways that teams are linking these concepts together to make the experience of working together-but-apart work. It won't be a re-telling of the same...

Kaleem Clarkson

Chief Operating Officer @blendmeinc

Anjuan Simmons

Engineering Coach @helpscout

Tammy Bjelland

CEO @Workplaceless

View full Schedule