The office isn't as essential as it used to be. Flexible working hours and distributed teams
are replacing decades of on-site open-plan office culture. Wherever you work from nowadays
your colleagues are likely to be somewhere else. No more whiteboards. No more water coolers.
And certainly no Ping-Pong. So how can you organize yourself ship software communicate and
be impactful as part of a globally distributed workforce? We'll show you how. It's time to
adopt a brand new mindset. Remote working is here to stay. Come and join us. Remote working is
on the rise. Whether or not we are remote workers it is likely we are all part of a global
workforce. We need to learn to interact remotely because we are all remote from someone in
some way. Rather than simply simulating the way we'd usually work together via digital means
we have to learn new communication skills and adopt a different mindset in order to work
remotely effectively efficiently and most importantly healthily. We'll start by getting you
set up with the right equipment and habits. Then we'll learn the mindset of treating everyone
as remote and conquer both synchronous and asynchronous communication. You'll learn how to
produce amazing artifacts how to communicate clearly and how to manage yourself and your
teams. Then we'll look at the bigger picture: from measuring the remote readiness of your
workplace to creating a handbook for your team to exploring remote-first culture and tackling
burnout and mental well-being. Fundamentally we'll see that adopting a remote-working mindset
can do wonders for our organization our effectiveness and our impact in our careers. It can
even create a more diverse and inclusive industry for us all to work in. So what are you
waiting for? The remote future is now. Be a part of it. What You Need: There are no
prerequisites to reading this book other than having had some experience of working in the
software industry and a healthy curiosity.
