How to Collaborate on a Distributed Agile Team

Despite our team living across the country, we’re a pretty close-knit group. We pride ourselves on being a successful distributed team, and appreciate the flexibility that this type of setup provides. The key to working remotely, however, is having strong communication and tools to help everyone collaborate effectively.

We’re always growing and evolving the way we operate, but here’s what’s currently working best for our team members, located in Syracuse, Los Angeles and in between.

As we said, having solid communication is really important when you’re not working in the same room with each other. Thankfully with distributed teams on the rise, there are lots of great tools for keeping everyone up to date and on the same page.

Here are a couple we use daily:

Between Zoom, Slack, and GitHub/GitLab, we estimate that these three tools account for about 90 percent of our agile collaboration time.

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