Distributed People and Processes

People:

• Teamwork & Spirit & Communication are keys
• Daily standup getting shorter
• Commitment to stick to estimates
• Knowledge and technical stuff sharing (avoiding Super Heroes)
• Feeling owner
• Support from the team for the newcomers
• Ask for help as soon as possible
• Pair programming and reviewing to get better understanding
• Be a trustworthy team member
• Tell when you go offline so that team understands if you’re online
• Sharing vision and plans

Processes:

• Introducing a new technology into the stack should be validated by product needs first
• Include all team members in decisions
• Keep every meetings structured and time-boxed
• Keep and shoot notes of your discussions/meetings
• Kickoff the project before diving into coding
• Follow the coding style and automate the code checks
• Feedback for constructive code review
• Comment your code (yes sir!!!)
• Care about backward-compatibility
• Check your test coverage and don’t merge code without tests validation
• Split artefact into small commit (less than 500 commits for previous experiences)
• If you’re stuck — don’t dig to long, ask for help after 2 hrs maximum