Communicate. That's how you make remote work productive for your organization.

Remote work entirely boils down to communication! Let me explain why. 📲

Communication is one of the most core functional aspects of an organization. At the level of software teams, good communication (both written and verbal) forms the basis for any kind of decision making. At the end of the day, organizations are made up of people, and communication binds people.

While you're in an office environment, communication happens naturally because you're confined in the same space as your coworkers. Quite often, communication is just a by-product and not a specialised activity. However, in a remote environment you need to take specialised efforts to communicate and most importantly, express yourself as an individual.

This can be difficult, but with the right processes, communication can be enhanced irrespective of whether you work remotely or in-office. In the case of remote work, you need to be proactive in sharing updates, setting up 1:1s, syncing with your Manager and team-mates, and most important of all maintaining a knowledge base.

That brings me to the next part. Communication is the heart of all knowledge development in a software team. The decisions you take, the trade-offs you make, the ideas you brainstorm, should be explicitly recorded in some manner so that it can become a source of inspiration and information for the future.

Remote work makes you deliberately think of communication and building a knowledge base which you might not think of, in an office environment. There could be exceptions, but remote work with good communication (in a broad AND deep sense) is a game changer for your engineering career.

— AdiPat ✨

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