Weronika Otrębska

If there’s one thing everyone can agree will feature in the New Normal, it’s remote working. But remote development teams, working from a variety of locations are hardly new in the world of software and digital product development. True, COVID-19 has forced most businesses to adopt remote working practices but some organizations (us, for example!) have a wealth of experience working in this way already.

If you read this article, you know already that the world has changed. Especially for industries based on providing high quality apps and web products. Without personal communication, distributed teams’ agility and creativity are at risk. If those initial home-office powered productivity peaks decline over the longer term how can we get back to pre-pandemic levels of team performance? For us the solution was improving psychological safety. What is psychological safety and how to create it for your teams? Read on to see four techniques we use to keep our distributed teams in good shape. Then try them out in your organization!