Agile Team & Teleworking
Hi folks,
My company is close to a big city (Paris, France), with a lot a traffic jam ; subway issues, CO2 pollution...
Our HR is willing to experiment "teleworking". I like the idea of "Result Only Working Environment" and having an ecological view of working environment, but I wonder how to balance with the Agile mindset of colocated teams.
Can an Agile Team work be efficient with teleworking ?
If I'm asked about it, I will suggest "just try and measure" but I'm very curious to read your experiences about it.
Good morning Olivier,
I had the luck (or the misfortune) to work with distributed and remoted teams in different timezones and sometimes continents. I always disencouraged such practices and insisted on collocation. From my experience, the most efficient teleworking agile teams were the ones that have been working together in a collocated enviroment for some years. Every time I came across a situation where a newly formed team was distributed, the result was a divided team with lack of trust and communication.
In any way, experiment, inspect and adapt.
PS: Sometimes I came across the concept of a "teleworking" Scrum Master, but to be honest I never realised how this worked (it didn't as anyone with a minimum Scrum experience can understand)
Would it be possible for a team to co-locate to an office or studio outside of the city?
Having a co-located team is better than having a dislocated one, but there’s no reason to assume it has to remain in a location which is becoming annoying or unfit for purpose.