Daily stand-ups. The cornerstone of agile methodology. In fact, 87% of agile teams employ daily stand-ups in their day-to-day operations. And they all struggle. There are 100 situations where your daily standup can go south. And then there are 100 more on top of that. Situation #1: An engineer shares with his team what he…
4 Alternatives to Tedious, In-Person Daily Standup Meetings
In person standup meetings can be huge time wasters. Here is an in depth discussion of 4 alternatives, including our Slackbot that provides communication benefits without the wasted time.
3 Best Slack Standup Bots in 2020 [In-Depth Comparison]
Companies often turn to a Slack standup bot for a couple of reasons: The team, or some portion of it, is remote, so there’s no convenient time to schedule standups due to time zone differences. It’s difficult to get everyone on the same call/meeting. Standups take too much time. They often turn into long decision…
Transition to remote working during the outbreak: 3+1 strategies
“Hey Nick, I’m sending you this email concerning remote working. We’re going to run a trial remote workday tomorrow, to see what we need to fix for a longer duration of remote working. As you’re an expert in this field, we would like you to provide us with some tips and tricks in order to…
Step by Step Guide to boost Remote Team Collaboration with Geekbot
Everyone knows: team collaboration rocks. Nearly 75% of employers rate teamwork and collaboration as “very important”. So we got that down. But here’s a problem: most of us have no idea how to improve the collaboration in their teams. It’s just something that happens by itself. Or worse, doesn’t. Numbers speak for themselves: Executives and…
How to Overcome the Challenges of Managing a Remote Team
Remote work is on the rise. An increasing number of companies have their employees spread all over the world. The benefits are many. You can hire from a much bigger pool of talent, don’t need to rent office space, and can serve your customers across a wider range of time zones. Being a remote team…
How Geekbot can Help an Engineering Remote Team to Stay Aligned
Let’s conduct a little mind experiment. Suppose you have a great team of professionals that you cherish and respect. Something BIG is happening for your company–let’s say a product release–and you want everyone on the team to be on the same page: united, focused, aligned. Except there is one obstacle. They are not in the…
How Geekbot Improves Trusted Relationships Within a Remote Team: Shopify story
How many qualities of a successful team can you think of? Productive, supportive, communicative, cooperative, organized… And then there’s ten more qualities that you can probably come up with the top of your mind.Is it possible to boil it down to just one? Turns out, some teams effectively did so. There’s one crucial characteristic that acts as…
How to Become a Scrum Master
If you asked a typical cross-section of 100 High School students what job they hoped to be doing in ten or fifteen years from now, you’d get a lot of teachers and engineers, some lawyers and doctors, a variety of other job titles, but almost certainly not a single scrum master. It’s not that surprising…
What is Planning Poker in Agile?
In Agile Methodology, one term that you will regularly come across is “Planning Poker”, but what is it exactly? Well, sadly, it’s not organizing a game of stud poker with your workmates in your lunch break because the business you work for has just adopted Agile. As attractive as that may sound to some, Planning…