To move away from the office mindset, then we’ll need to unlearn a few unhealthy habits we’ve picked up over the years. In this post, I want to share four of these habits. Benign as they may seem, they are pernicious obstacles in your path to being an async-first team or organisation. Let’s explore each of them and the problems they create. As we do so, I’ll outline a few alternatives to these behaviour

Let’s look at the categories of collaborative tools most software development teams will need. Many of these will seem familiar to you already, and that’s a good thing. You just need to use the tools effectively. I’ve broken down the list into three categories - must haves, good to haves and optional extras.

In the previous post, we discussed how written communication is the number one superpower when working asynchronously. In this post, I’m adding three more superpowers to the list. Think of these as a quartet of abilities that will help you and your team to supercharge your individual and collective effectiveness.

1. Distraction blocking

2. Reading and comprehension

3. Working independently

There’s no asynchronous work without written communication. It has several benefits over just verbal communication and even over audio and video. This post articulates those benefits and shares some resources you can use to build this remote working superpower.