Andreea-Ruxandra Peter

Andreea-Ruxandra Peter is a Math teacher who became a Java Developer and then discovered Agile.

She is a Scrum Master at heart, but her current position requires her to have Project Manager skills too. Andreea-Ruxandra enjoys being a meeting facilitator and sharing her knowledge with others. She learned a lot from the Agile/Scrum classes that she had taught. She also learned from her experience in Agile that nothing is as simple as it seems. But being Agile should be about responding to change, about being able to help your client have the best product they could have.

Andreea-Ruxandra’s current focus is on improving meetings, improving motivation, and helping teams learn what works for them.

Title of presentation: 6 Ideas to Make your Team Great.

Are you part of a virtual team, spread across continents and time zones, or just “forced” to work from home? Do you feel you are talking with strangers, but you need to work with them anyway? Then Andreea-Ruxandra Peter can tell you what her teams did to improve their remote collaboration and communication. Together we will talk about the small things we did in order to help ourselves and our team to become stronger and better.

Before the pandemic, most companies moved from collocated teams to remote ones in order to decrease their overall costs, now working virtual is a fact of life. The simple fact of copying the collocated way of working into the virtual is not helping us – we struggle and we get frustrated very often.

So, what can we do? Can we make our day better and be happy at work? What if the answer is right in front of us?

Andreea-Ruxandra wants to show you how to identify your team’s challenges and what you can do to help your team. Or how you may fail when trying specific ideas.

There is no perfect recipe for success that is for sure. But she wants to talk about choosing the right people for virtual teams (or educating them), creating team agreements that have a focus on the virtual aspect of work, talking about the need for virtual events, and of course the respect of our time zones when setting up a time for different activities.

Her hope is that by the end of her presentation you will see key differences between how collocated teams work and how virtual teams work.

12:30 - 13:15

TeleSoftas Track

6 Ideas to Make your Team Great

Are you part of a virtual team, spread across continents and time zones, or just “forced” to work from home? Do you feel you are talking with strangers, but you need to work with them anyway? Then Andreea-Ruxandra Peter can tell you what her teams did to improve their remote collaboration and communication. Together we will talk about the small things we did in order to help ourselves and our team to become stronger and better.

Before the pandemic, most companies moved from collocated teams to remote ones in order to decrease their overall costs, now working virtual is a fact of life. The simple fact of copying the collocated way of working into the virtual is not helping us – we struggle and we get frustrated very often.

So, what can we do? Can we make our day better and be happy at work? What if the answer is right in front of us?

Andreea-Ruxandra wants to show you how to identify your team’s challenges and what you can do to help your team. Or how you may fail when trying specific ideas.

There is no perfect recipe for success that is for sure. But she wants to talk about choosing the right people for virtual teams (or educating them), creating team agreements that have a focus on the virtual aspect of work, talking about the need for virtual events, and of course the respect of our time zones when setting up a time for different activities.

Her hope is that by the end of her presentation you will see key differences between how collocated teams work and how virtual teams work.