I wondered about this when I first joined Elastic which is largely remote. It made me anxious at first, but that was quickly alleviated.
We have a lot of non-work related Slack channels for starters so you can talk about common interests or topics. We also have a general "watercooler" or "idle" room where we talk about whatever. Great way to learn about remote teammates.
Teaching, pair programming, presenting, and demoing over video conference (zoom in our case). We focus on staying on topic, but just getting to hear from each other and say hi is important.
Speaking of video conferencing... we have some Zoom rooms that are always on. Folks can join at will, stay muted, chat, ask questions, or whatever else they might need. It's just another way to get face time. It's not mandatory to join, but it's left as an option.
Some teams have a daily standup (non-mandatory), not necessarily because we're trying to be agile, but just to hear what each other is working on and to get a bit of face time.
A couple times a year, we meet in person for a few days for an all hands to cover important topics for the team/business/etc, but we also make time to just be together.
With all of the above, in some ways it doesn't feel very remote at all.
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I wondered about this when I first joined Elastic which is largely remote. It made me anxious at first, but that was quickly alleviated.
We have a lot of non-work related Slack channels for starters so you can talk about common interests or topics. We also have a general "watercooler" or "idle" room where we talk about whatever. Great way to learn about remote teammates.
Teaching, pair programming, presenting, and demoing over video conference (zoom in our case). We focus on staying on topic, but just getting to hear from each other and say hi is important.
Speaking of video conferencing... we have some Zoom rooms that are always on. Folks can join at will, stay muted, chat, ask questions, or whatever else they might need. It's just another way to get face time. It's not mandatory to join, but it's left as an option.
Some teams have a daily standup (non-mandatory), not necessarily because we're trying to be agile, but just to hear what each other is working on and to get a bit of face time.
A couple times a year, we meet in person for a few days for an all hands to cover important topics for the team/business/etc, but we also make time to just be together.
With all of the above, in some ways it doesn't feel very remote at all.