AIRTOUCH NEW MEDIA
Location Based Mobile Marketing | Social Media | Mobile & Web Development
MADRID | PARIS | MEXICO | BUCHAREST
AgendaRemote Team WorkingBenefits and Best Practices
AAK biography
Why remote work ?
Best practices for remote working
Tools for remote working + Project/ Task Management
Collaboration + File Sharing + Code Review
Example: Bucharest as remote destination
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C E O – Co Founder
Airtouch New Media| Digital Executive | Cross-Cultural Teams Management | Multilingual | Multicultural |
International Digital executive that had global responsabilities for an American company managing brands and multicultural large teams spread in more than 4 countries and offices. He previously acted as entrepreneur for others opening and managing the Spanish offices of important French startups that were finally aquired by American companies and over the past years created his own Startups and invested in others. He speaks fluently 3 languages and lived in more than 5 countries in the Americas, Europe and Asia.
Armando Avila Kramis
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Why Remote Work?
THANKS TO INTERNET THE WORLD IS OUR
LIMIT
NEW TRENDS: STARTUPS ARE MICRO-MULTI
NATIONALS
• Sell globally• And Hire Globally????
• Why to limit to sell and hire locally ?• Why don’t hire the best talent wherever it is ?• Which are the global strengths per region and
profession ?• Where is the highest quality of what I need?• Where can I find cost efficiencies?• Where can I have tax benefits ?• Where do I have location/logistics benefits ?
Remote Activities Examples
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Delocalized / Externalized
Development & QATech Firms & Freelancers
LegalReplaced by Law Firms
CommunicationBy PR Agencies
Design & UXAgencies or & Freelancers
Finance DepartmentVenture Capital Funds
Best Practices for Remote working Empowering communication, Collaboration and Transparency
02 Language should not be an issue
05 Have an ambassador per remote destination to build and maintain the communication bridge between locations
01 Have the right profile of people
04 When possible have people from both sides flying to the other
03 Use complementary productivity tools !
06 First time and periodically important to have a team video conference to increase knowledge of each other and to discuss about status of the project(s).
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07 Periodically check people and procedures and make improvements if needed
is the FREE, flexible, and visual way to organize anything with anyone.Keeping track of project tasks, as well as the overview of the project
TRELLO
Trusted by millions, Basecamp is the PAID leading web-based project management and collaboration tool. To-dos, files, messages, schedules, and milestones.
BASECAMP
Allows you to share files and sync them across any device. FREE. All your files, Any device, Offline access.
DROPBOX
FREE. Between video, voice and text chat, keeps you connected with the entire team. You can also share your screen and do Skype out to international phone numbers.
SKYPE
the FREE All-In-One Software for Remote Support over the internet to control any computer or Mac and Online Meetings
TEAMVIEWER
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Tools to Work Remotely
JIRA is a PAID issue tracking product, developed by Atlassian. It provides bug tracking, issue tracking, and project management functions.
JIRA
It is a PAID open-source version control system that provides a great web-based graphical interface;
GITHUB
Enables you to write and execute automated acceptance tests of mobile apps. It’s cross-platform. It’s also open source and FREE by Xamarin
CALABASH
Software developers in a team can review each other's modifications on their source code using a Web browser and approve or reject those changes.
JENKINS
is a FREE, web-based team code collaboration tool. It integrates closely with Git, a distributed version control system.
GERRIT
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Tools to Work Remotely
Tools for Remote working(others)
• Collaborating or Chatting
–Slack: is great for one-on-one conversations or with everyone
• Code review
–Review Board: is a powerful web-based code review tool that offers developers an easy way to handle code reviews. It scales well from small projects to large companies and offers a variety of tools to take much of the stress and time out of the code review process.
Tools for Remote working(others)
• Code Review
– Kallithea is a cross-platform, FREE source code management system that supports two leading version control systems, Mercurial and Git, and has a web interface that is easy to use for users and admins, with features for collaboration, such as forking, pull requests, code review, issue tracking.
– Crucible is a collaborative code review application by Australian software company Atlassian, particularly tailored to distributed teams, and facilitates review and commenting on code, integrating with popular source control tools, such as Git and Subversion.
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Universities and IT HubsIT talents are cultivated in Romania’s top high-schools that focus on mathematics and computer science.
Bucharest Located at the heart of Eastern Europe, Romania has grown into an ideal software development location for companies seeking highly technical and friendly work force, cost-effective business environment at a nearby location.
Technical ExpertiseThe software developers in Romania are highly competent and experienced with various software methodologies (both traditional and Agile), technologies such as C, C++, .NET, Java, PHP, Mobile.
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Bucharest as Remote Destination
400Km
CommunicationRomanians speak English fluently, and are highly articulate. These skills are critical in email and video conferencing.
RatesOne of Romania’s key strengths remains the competitive costs of the workforce.
Culture Romanians are generally cosmopolitan, educated, fluent English speakers and resourceful creative people.
Compatible Time Zone
The country’s time zone is compatible with those of European countries (maximum of 2h difference), and with U.S. during the day (2-3 hours of overlap).
Thanks!
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MADRID | PARIS | MEXICO | BUCHAREST
Armando Avila [email protected]
+34 659 436 519