There are several implications: Your camera is always on. In a remote setting, your appearance is the image of your face, the sound of your voice and the background behind your head. Professionalism is an attitude, it is how you do your job. After all 'I help development teams with Professionalism' (as written on the second introduction slide of all of my decks). And at the end of the meeting I ask everybody to check-out, which is the opposite, asking how they are leaving as human beings. Conversation, arguing or discussion break the check-in. Some people keep talking and I have to remind them what the check-in is about and stop them from taking all the space. Some people always reply with 'I am OK' and I am fine with that. Now I place more emphasis on the human and emotional side of my peers because it is missing in a remote setting. I am unable to identify the little hints when you are just a small image on my screen. In a face to face situation I might be able to recognise if you are tired or distracted or upset.

When we work separately, I miss your face and body language and we need to be explicit how we are. The check-in is not about your role, your expectations or current work. During a check-in everybody says a few words how he or she is here - as a human being. When working remotely, the first and foremost thing I use are check-ins. What would be my top three tips for remote work? They invited me and I thought about the advice I would give. After one year of remote work, one of my clients ran an in-house knowledge sharing on how to do that successfully. All these tasks involved other people and I was severely affected by my 'remoteness'.

pair programming, code reviews, coding workshops, just in a remote way. During COVID lockdown, I worked remotely.

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