DeutschWhen working in a distributed environment or remote work environment, as is increasingly – and quite fortunately – becoming the default for knowledge workers, and the software industry in particular, chances are, rather sooner than later you’ll be collaborating across timezones. I’m currently collaborating with people from EDT, GMT, CEST, MYT, JST, and AEST timezones, […]
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My Remote Work Setup
I’ve been a proponent of remote work, new ways of work and different approaches to work culture and the opportunities and options those provide for a long time. While 2019 arguably was the year when remote work finally caught on for more than just a select few, 2020 most definitely was the year when remote […]
Read moreEmergency Remote – A Guide to “Winning” Remote Work
These days, there’s certainly no shortage of remote work guides, how-tos and tools – and rightfully so: Remote work has made sense since before 2020 and in the future it’ll be the new default for many industries. Emergency Remote is another more recent take on how to quickly implement a productive remote work environment that […]
Read moreRemote Work Is Here to Stay: Best Practices and Tools
2019 seems to have been the year when remote work finally caught on. While not exactly the new default yet it’s not as alien and outré anymore as it used to be just a few years ago. Today, instead of being ridiculed or looking into bewildered faces proponents of remote work are usually taken seriously. […]
Read moreDHH on “No more remote work at Yahoo”
David Heinemeier-Hansson of 37signals on how Yahoo is completely mistaken to do away with remote work.
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37signals works remotely – why doesn’t your company, too?
Read moreRemote Team Collaboration: Remote Desktop Solutions
The tools I wrote about in previous posts on remote team collaboration serve specific tasks or help with particular parts of workflows. They all run on existing hardware and infrastructure, though. If, however, you want to get rid of a dependency on specific hardware entirely, remote desktop solutions are a viable approach. Remote desktop products […]
Read moreRemote Team Collaboration: tmate – Instant terminal sharing
While there are quite a few options for collaborating visually in a remote work setting and remote desktop solutions are ten a penny there are surprisingly few options for instant live collaboration in text-based environments, i.e. terminals or command-line interfaces. One such option for instant terminal sharing is tmate. tmate for instance allows you to […]
Read moreRemote Team Collaboration: Whiteboards With Google Jamboard
Two weeks ago I wrote about working collaboratively on digital whiteboards with Miro. Since 2017 Google has been selling competitively priced digital whiteboard hardware under its Jamboard brand. Alongside that hardware product, however, with Google Jamboard there’s a companion software product of the same name as part of Google’s G Suite collection of cloud computing, […]
Read moreRemote Team Collaboration: Appointment Scheduling With Calendly
Calendly is an online appointment scheduling tool that allows you, your team, or your entire organisation to flexibly schedule meetings. As a user you can define available time slots and allow others to schedule meetings according to these time slots. Calendly taps into your usual online calendar tool (e.g. Google Calendar, Office 365 / Outlook, […]
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