Rethinking digital collaboration for a #RemoteFirst world
/Hi,
My last blog post talked about the physical vs digital trade-offs for using kanban walls. Reading it again today I felt it needed a refresh for today’s world.
I’ve for a long time been a proponent of the physical wall, however in a #RemoteFirst world it has surprised me how effective a fully digital collaboration approach has been working. This won’t be news to the few teams that have been 100% remote for years.
Over the last few months I helped a major Australian brand stand up a new product discovery team, including people who had never met face to face. We used a fully remote inception, a set of team kick-off workshops, online daily meetings, online stakeholder showcases and online retrospectives to great effect, and I want to share what worked:
Using a powerful digital whiteboard canvas for collaboration. We used Mural.co
Building early trust between people who have never met in person
Defining success criteria for the initiative using exercises and OKRs
Establishing ways of working for the team that match the new working environment
Creating a “mission control” for visual management of the initiative
Using mural to run the daily meeting and retrospectives online
I’ll be talking about these tools and techniques in a couple of weeks at LAST Conference Anywhere. I’ll be running a 90-minute workshop on digital collaboration (co-facilitated by Christine) that lets you experience a simulation of a product discovery inception. Note: there is a 20-person limit per workshop, so get in quickly if you are interested!
If you’d be interested in running this 90-min experience for your team or the full set of team inception workshops please get in touch! Schedule a free consultation in my online calendar.
