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Remote working for teams - how to make it work for real

For whatever reason you need to work apart from your colleagues. This time though it's a bigger challenge: this time it has to be for longer than the odd day. Gone is working from home to get your head down to write code. This may go on for sometime so now you and your team need to work effectively together using whatever digital technologies you can lay hands on. It’s a tall order.

In the old days (like last week) we’d have organised a meetup and had a few experienced folk explain how to rise to the challenge. Obviously that’s not really advisable so in the spirit of the moment let’s try something a little different.

We are running a virtual roundtable with everyone remotely connected: a moderator to keep things focused, a panel of experienced (or at least opinionated) advisors and an audience that can interact with the panellists. Be part of an interesting experiment and hear good advice about how to work remotely in teams.

Topics will include:
Thoughts on the right tech to use
How digital meetings work (or don’t) compared to face to face
How to keep sane when no one can see what you’re wearing
Can pair-programming work remotely?
Communicating with others when you can’t read body language (how to tell if someone is upset or happy)
How to get the team cohesive
and finally....
How to not work too hard when at home.

About the panellists

Simon Maple is VP, Developer Relations and Community at Snyk, a Java Champion since 2014, JavaOne Rockstar speaker in 2014, Duke’s Choice award winner, Virtual JUG founder and organiser, and London Java Community co-leader. He is an experienced speaker, having presented at JavaOne, JavaZone, Jfokus, DevoxxUK, DevoxxFR, JavaLand, JMaghreb and many more including many JUG tours. His passion is around user groups and communities. When not traveling, Simon enjoys spending quality time with his family, cooking and eating great food.

Steve Poole is a Developer Advocate, DevOps practitioner (what ever that means) Long time IBM Java developer, leader, and evangelist. He's been working on IBM Java SDKs and JVMs since Java was less than 1. Also had time to work on other things including representing IBM on various JSRs, being a committer on various open source projects including ones at Apache, Eclipse, and OpenJDK. Also a member of the Adopt OpenJDK group championing community involvement in OpenJDK. A seasoned speaker and regular presenter at JavaOne and other conferences on technical and software engineering topics.

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