by Lisette Sutherland | Apr 29, 2014 | Experiments, Remote Working
Today is the beginning of a 30 Day Try-on-athon where I try to answer the question: How do the clothes we wear affect our productivity as remote workers? You can track the progress here! I felt more professional during my meetings throughout the day – probably...
by Lisette Sutherland | Apr 28, 2014 | Experiments, Remote Working, Work Holiday
While I do all of my work “remotely”, most of my time is spent working from just a few places: my house, my partner Florian’s house, or the train. I’ve had time to perfect each space to be productive for my needs. For the last ten days, Florian...
by Lisette Sutherland | Apr 13, 2014 | Collaboration, Community Design, Remote Working
Last week, I had the pleasure of attending a conference in a virtual world with AgileBill Krebs. We started by meeting in a virtual office in Sococo and then we headed over to Second Life to attend part of the Virtual Worlds: Best Practices in Education (VWBPE)...
by Lisette Sutherland | Mar 25, 2014 | Retrospectives
I spent last week in Switzerland taking a ski touring class where we learned the essentials of off-piste skiing, how to avoid avalanches, how to find people in avalanches, how to plan a ski tour, etc. I don’t know what it is exactly about being in the mountains...
by Lisette Sutherland | Feb 27, 2014 | Remote Working
There are a lot of things that I enjoy about working from home: I have a lovely, quiet, warm apartment, with awesome internet. I have a neighbor cat that stops by to visit. I have a big external monitor, and a great set of speakers to listen to music with. But there...
by Lisette Sutherland | Jan 30, 2014 | Collaboration, Remote Working
For almost a year, I went back to the office and worked full time… after working remotely for over 8 years. There’s a lot I enjoyed about the experience: I enjoyed working with a team of people. I had fun colleagues. I enjoyed the lunch walks in the park....
by Lisette Sutherland | Jan 18, 2014 | Collaboration, Interviews, Remote Working
While traveling in November 2013, I stopped by the office of one of my Happy Melly colleagues at Knowit Management, a consulting firm in the heart of downtown Stockholm. While there, I had the opportunity to interview Fredrik Wiik, a Management 3.0 facilitator and...
by Lisette Sutherland | Dec 21, 2013 | Retrospectives
In this week’s remote retrospective, I could talk about… … how grateful I am to have Gretchen as a virtual collaboration partner. … how excited I am to be working on a remote collaboration project with Elinor – and how fast it’s taking on...
by Lisette Sutherland | Dec 16, 2013 | Interviews, Remote Working
In November 2013, I gave a presentation at the Agile HR Sweden conference in Stockholm. While there, I asked if I could visit the Spotify office and interview someone who worked on a remote team. Anders Ivarsson graciously gave me a tour (the office is very cool!)...
by Lisette Sutherland | Dec 11, 2013 | Interviews, Remote Working
This week Jurgen Appelo interviewed me about remote working. Specifically, he asked: What is remote working? How do we know if remote workers are really working? Can anyone be a remote worker? Or is it only for special people? Read the original blog post:...
