Cross the finish line

The world has completely changed due to corona virus. Companies that deliver agile projects are adapting to the challenges easily and continue to deliver projects at pace from remote working. Businesses everywhere are figuring out how to best set their employees up for success when working from home. Naturally, Team Leads are no exception.

Working from home has given coworkers a peak into our personal lives. And that's a good thing. In case you're moving to a remote workplace for the first time, for the first few weeks you're going to need to invest somewhat more energy than expected in the arranging stage to compensate for any loss of communication within your team.

Here are some tips to help your project cross the finish line - from home!

Utilise Video/Audio Calls

Before you start the work for the day and before concluding the day its best to have stand-up-meeting utilising video/audio conference calls to plan for the current day work within the team and to get the progress at the end of the day.

Set Immediate & Clear Expectations

Ensure all workers know precisely what you anticipate. For instance, let them know how frequently you need them to check in, regardless of whether you'd like them to connect before they end their workday and on the off chance that they should follow their time. While a few heads expect refreshes from each colleague every day, others might be happy with a week by week instructions. By telling your group what you need from them, you can ensure you're synchronised.

Establish Internal Project Chat

Sometimes it's best to have separate chat groups for projects to ensure seamless communication throughout the day by sharing quick message notes to reach out to their respective team to unblock themselves to do their assigned work or even to get clarified with the requirements. This helps tremendously when we’re giving our day-to-day updates on our current projects and what we’re working on for the day.

Maximise the Collaboration Tools at Your Disposal

Power up you work with available software to manage the project and your team. Basically pick tools to cover the following functionalities...

To communicate with the team
Log all the information of the project you’re working on
Keep track of the tasks
Maintain a daily log from the team
Monitor the task during the working hours

However, there's an acknowledgement that occasionally you can't replace a portion of the things you'd get in an office domain – like those grabbed discussions, or the buzz of an office situation. As in anything throughout everyday life, you increase a few things and you additionally lose some different things!