by Murat Knecht | Mar 5, 2020 | Open
How do you get a “remote team“? And what does “remote” mean anyway? Is it different timezones, geographic distribution? Must there be at least one digital nomad sitting at the beach at any given time? Is it that standups happen with Zoom? Or maybe you have to get rid...
by Murat Knecht | Jan 20, 2020 | Open
Bad Office Habits can creep into remote teams just fine. A proud and happy remote worker, I didn’t realize this until I read on reddit a couple of days ago that Slack is “asynchronish”. That’s to say asynchronous … but not quite. That got me thinking....
by Murat Knecht | Oct 14, 2019 | Open
Once a week our remote dev team plays a board game—Carcassonne to be specific. We’ve been doing this instead of the usual standup for a few months now—and it’s been super fun. Where did that come from? It’s no secret that, if you work in a remote...
by Murat Knecht | Sep 9, 2019 | Open
Remote work usually means you are location independent. Yes: you are free to work from anywhere! Unfortunately it’s not all mojitos and sunset at the beach. Did you know palm trees often don’t feature Wifi? And as they say: with freedom comes...
by Murat Knecht | Jun 24, 2018 | Engineering, Open
We recently noticed a pattern: Members from the engageSPARK tech team meet all over Asia, in a semi ad-hoc fashion. What does that have to do with an ice cream truck? I’ll explain that, and why it’s a good thing, and how we’re going to make this an...
