"Can you hear me?"

Remote Friendly Culture

Basics

• Everybody can work from home anytime
• All meetings are remote by default
• Every room has a TV and a webcam

Beeign remote

• Communicate your presence/absence
• People can reach out to you at any time
• Open a video call for meetings, chats,
  pair programmings at any time

Working in the same "room"

• say good morning
• communicate that you
  are off for lunch
• say goodbye

Presence/Absence

• Talking face to face
• Share your screen
• Use Slack inbuilt features
• Give Feedback
  (draw, emojis)

Video Call

Images Source: https://slackhq.com

• prepare a video call a few minutes in advance
• connect camera and microphone
  (ideally camera with wide angle and an external mic)
• open a call in #product_developers
• NOTE:
  As a remotee always mute your mic if you are not speaking (reduce noises)

Daily Scrum

• connect to Apple TV
• connect to an external camera and microphone
• open a slack call
• share your screen with the call

Conference Room

Images Source: https://logitech.com

• connect to Apple TV
• connect to an external camera and microphone
• open a slack call
• share your screen with the call
• every presenter joins this call to share his/hers presentations

Weekly

• connect to Apple TV
• connect to an external camera and microphone
• open a slack call
• share your screen with the call
• move camera to either whiteboard or attendees
• when working with postits let remotees write their ideas in a #slack_channel and write them down on postits
• make photos of whiteboard and send those via slack

Retro

• REMOTEES:
  Inbuilt laptop camera,
  Headphones with Microphone
• Fish-Eye Camera on top of Laptop
• Wide-Angle Camera on top of TV
• USB Speaker/Microphone (Spinne)

Technical Devices

Images Source: https://logitech.com

Good job => Apple iPhone Headphones with mic

• Jabra Mic/Speaker:
  https://www.jabra.com.de/business/speakerphones/jabra-speak-series
• LogiTech Group:
  https://www.logitech.com/en-gb/product/conferencecam-group
• ZOOM: https://zoom.us/?zcid=1166
• GoToMeeting: https://www.gotomeeting.com/de-de
• RealTimeBoard: https://realtimeboard.com/features/

Technical Devices

• https://slackhq.com
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpqYKG96D0I
• https://twitter.com/SamirTalwar/status/1001765453885333504

Sources