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Managing Tech Teamwork Globally
Jamie Lyn Woods, María Iglesias
Engineering positions rank among the top five most popular remote jobs across numerous sources - but managing a remote technical team is no easy feat. Whether it's closing the social distance between team members or simply planning team meetings, having a well executed process and strong...
Engineering positions rank among the top five most popular remote jobs across numerous sources - but managing a remote technical team is no easy feat. Whether it's closing the social distance between team members or simply planning team meetings, having a well executed process and strong remote culture is key. Jamie Lyn Woods, User Experience Researcher and María Iglesias, User Experience Designer, work for Solstice and live in two different cities across the globe. Join this live Q&A to hear how they manage global teamwork and which processes help them thrive in this virtual team setting!
Meet The Speakers
Jamie Lyn Woods
User Advocate, Socstice
Jamie Lyn Woods is a user advocate who utilizes research to find solvable pain points and help ideate on improved user-centered products. With a background of over a decade in theatre design, she has a strong grasp on storytelling and human emotions which allow her to build strong user empathy among many of her cross-functional teammates. She has grown a lot during her time with Solstice which began a little over a year ago when she joined the summer internship team as a User Experience Researcher.
María Iglesias
User Experience Designer, Solstice
María Florencia Iglesias is a User Experience Designer with a background in Graphic Design and 7 years of experience in the field. Since 2016 she has been working at Solstice Argentina as a UXD Sr. Consultant; translating user needs to business outcomes by designing products that address real problems discovered through first-hand user feedback.
Q&A
Q&A guidelines-
In your opinion do you think there is a productivity tipping point regarding the size of team (#of people) that can be managed directly by one person (or conversely, is there an ‘ideal’ size...
Posted on 2019-12-20 -
What’s the best way to communicate and “manage” with your boss and peers, remotely?
Posted on 2019-12-19 -
How can you keep your boss up to date on what you're accomplishing when you work remote?
Posted on 2019-12-19 -
What are early signs of potential conflict within a remote team, and what are some strategies for preempting a conflict?
Posted on 2019-12-19 -
How often should meetings be when working with remote teams? Daily? Weekly? Monthly?
Posted on 2019-12-19 -
How do you handle calling in sick while working in remotely? I am just wondering about how to handle emergencies or other matters that come up when there is a meeting scheduled that day, etc.
Posted on 2019-12-19 -
Can you suggest great collaboration tools that are also accessible (for people with vision impairments, dyslexia or other barriers to reading)? My last team had a number of people with these print...
Posted on 2019-12-19 -
What is a good way to practice personal accountability effectively when there's no one checking in on time spent working or the velocity of work produced?
Posted on 2019-12-19 -
I’m interested in observing the conservation as I’m an UX/UI student.
Posted on 2019-12-19 -
I actually would like to know how to coordinate a geographically dispersed team and achieve timely feedbacks.
Posted on 2019-12-19 -
How can you “manage up” remotely?
Posted on 2019-12-19 -
Which tools or platforms do you consider best to make this even easier?
Posted on 2019-12-18 -
In what ways do you motivate remote employees who do not communicate well or often enough to the team?
Posted on 2019-12-16 -
How do you manage different timezones and still get sleep?
Posted on 2019-12-15 -
What's the best way to break into project management, from a developer/analyst role? Any tips other than "emphasize project management experience on your resume"? Thanks very much!
Posted on 2019-12-13 -
Seems that there are oodles of collaborative and chat apps available to keep remote workers feeling less remote but in reality the sharing of expectations and deadlines seems to still be a basic...
Posted on 2019-12-13 -
Hi, I have quite a few questions around working in remote with teams. What are you main challenges managing remote teams? What are you advices on bringing multicultural members closer to each...
Posted on 2019-12-10 -
What is the most difficult part of remote international work, and why? And, (how) do you solve for this?
Posted on 2019-12-06
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