How do you help your team to transition from being colocated to remote work and not lose that synergy that you shared in office? Scrum Masters, Chantal Jenoure and Nicola Brown, talk about some of the activities that they’ve been trying so far. Key tip, it’s necessary to be deliberate in your actions, in order to continue driving that collaboration, communication and overall team synergy.

Agile is an umbrella school of thought that was created by software developers for software development, but it is essentially a mindset, coupled with principles and values that can be applied to various aspects of our general lives.

No matter which field, the values remain the same and the aim is to be more efficient in how value is delivered to the end-user.

Even as an entrepreneur, your business can benefit from Agile even if you’ve never been formally trained in Agile. Here are a few adjustments you can start making to work smarter and deliver value to you customer consistently. For more tips, check out: https://agilecaribbeanlink.blogspot.com/2019/11/design-thinking-5-stage-process.html | https://agilecaribbeanlink.blogspot.com/2020/05/4-agile-tips-for-non-agile-businesses.html | https://agilecaribbeanlink.blogspot.com/2020/05/ideas-for-customer-collaboration.html

Coming together as a new team can be an intimidating process. To help ease the anxiety, we’ve found 3 engaging and powerful activities that can help to create the right atmosphere for a new team.

For us, the secret is in

i. Finding the common factor among team members from day 1

ii. Encouraging discussions, even debates, also from day 1 and

iii. Identifying the strengths and weaknesses of each team member & then using this to build out the capabilities of your super team. What are your go-to activities when bringing together a new team?

With many teams recently thrown into the world of remote work, knowing where to start, can be tricky. Here are 3 simple hacks, found on LinkedIn, that helped our teams to make the transition.