Make time-zones your ally. By alternating facilitation responsibilities across locations, you can make cross timezone workshops and inceptions less stressful for everyone.

During inceptions and workshops, it's easier to poke holes at something wrong than to write the first words on a whiteboard. So instead of starting from a blank slate, synthesise what you think you know and then validate your understanding.

Back in the day when agile still wasn’t a thing, wideband Delphi estimation involved anonymously filling out forms. You can do the same thing now, but more efficiently with online forms.

You don’t always need a long meeting to play the velocity game. It’s easy to run this using a simple survey.

Nigel Thurlow and Dave Slayton came up with this approach to estimate scope, at Toyota. You can use this to estimate size at the start of a project. You can also use this technique when you have to estimate a large amount of scope for an in-flight project.

Warp speed estimation is a way to quantify scope at the start of a project.