The Pandemic Effect

The pandemic made us more agile than ever. As we are no longer tied to a particular workplace, ‘colocation’ in agile gets a whole new meaning – working in the same time zone! The model that applied to geographically distributed agile teams now applies internally to the team itself!

In 2020, I worked with 3 different teams in 3 different time zones. We got off to a rough start because it’s so easy to fall behind with a small miscommunication or a slight delay in correspondence. There is no room for error in a situation where one team depends on the input of the other team in a different time zone to start their day. As a result it only makes you better and better with communication and time management. The more independent and decisive you become, the more you can get done and this is what being agile is all about. Start->Continue->Improve!