Remote

Office not Required

Remoting in WSS team

  • Normally once a week
  • Recently worked remotely for a couple of weeks

Challenges

  • Isolation
  • Extreme Programming
    • Pair Programming
    • Mob Programming
    • Ping-Pong TDD
    • -> Synchronous dev processes

Basics

  • Hardware
    • Laptop (+ Docking)
    • Webcam
    • Headset
  • VPN (or Cloud based software)
  • Chat
    • Rocket.Chat
    • Mattermost

Video Chat

Jangouts

Jitsi

Rocket.Chat

Zoom

Coding

Floobits

Visual Studio Live Share

Github Flow

Zoom

Conclusion

  • Used tools have to work reliably
  • Ideally remote firstĀ 
  • Bigger team distribution -> Better remote experience

Remote

By Kevin Wittek