Remote Engineering Management: Managing an Engineering Team in a Remote-First World

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A. SunderlandRemote Engineering Managementhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8584-8_6

6. Communication Strategies

Alexandra Sunderland¹  

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Ottawa, ON, Canada

 

For people who haven’t embraced the incredibleness that is remote work yet, one of the biggest concerns that’s often brought up as holding them back is the fear that there won’t be enough communication between people.

It’s a fear that shows an overreliance on old-school management techniques: walking around the office checking in on team members by going up to their desks and interrupting whatever deep state of work they were in to ask how it’s going. These are the same companies that will schedule so ...