Introduction to Successful Remote Teamwork

1. 00:00Hello! Welcome to the course "Introduction to Successful
2. 00:03Remote Teamwork!" Hanadi, Salim and me will our guide
3. 00:08you through this course and we will be
4. 00:11talking about topics like remote teamwork
5. 00:14and the focus will be really on the team part of the
6. 00:20remote work. We will be covering a couple of tools that
7. 00:24you can use to support remote teamwork and we will be
8. 00:28talking about motivational and cognitive aspects of
9. 00:31remote teamwork, and also about organizational policies, and
10. 00:35finally in week three about intercultural competence.
11. 00:39So, the course will be presented by
12. 00:44Hanadi Traifeh, Salim Chujfi, and me Tom Staubitz,
13. 00:47and now that we've talked so much about what will be
14. 00:50happening in the course, we will give you a little introduction,
15. 00:54a little more introduction about ourselves, so that you know
16. 00:58a little bit about our backgrounds. So let's start with Salim.
17. 01:02Salim is the managing director of Sabienza technologies,
18. 01:05which is a Berlin-based company specialized to support
19. 01:09secure telecommunications for remote teams.
20. 01:11He is also a researcher at the Hasso Plattner Institute,
21. 01:14working on cognitive science related to telecommuting.
22. 01:19In the context of this cause his mainly responsible
23. 01:23for the organizational and cognitive topics related to remote
24. 01:26teamwork. Let's come to some fun facts: he loves Latin
25. 01:32music, he loves researching with kids, and cooking Arab dishes.
26. 01:36And now, you won't believe that, he even married remotely.
27. 01:41In a yellow telephone box. You remember these, maybe if
28. 01:44you're old enough, these old telephone boxes that used to stand around
29. 01:47everywhere. He actually was using a 'Go-Bananas' prepaid
30. 01:51card. Believe it or not, he's still married to the same woman... yeah
31. 01:54exactly... Ok, now let me present you Hanadi, Hanadi a Design Thinking
32. 02:00coach and researcher at the HPI-Stanford Design-Thinking Research
33. 02:03Program. Her expertise it is in this digital learning,
34. 02:07human centered design, and visual communication.
35. 02:09In the context of this course, she will be mainly responsible
36. 02:12for the intercultural competence in week three.
37. 02:16Well, if we talk about some facts on Hanadi she has a
38. 02:20lot to do with teamwork, specially at home with her twins:
39. 02:24six year old boys. Problem solving, I believe
40. 02:28you are absolutely good at... Absolutely ... There is something
41. 02:31even more interesting about Hanadi: since he was born, she
42. 02:35has never lived in one single place for more than three years...
43. 02:39Sometimes not in the same city, not in the same country....
44. 02:42Come on, imagine, now she is really a natural remote.
45. 02:47So who is Tom? Tom is a researcher at the Hasso Plattner Institute,
46. 02:51he's focusing in his work on teamwork, and collaborative learning
47. 02:55in a large scale learning environments. He is part of the
48. 02:59openHPI Team and so far has conducted several courses on
49. 03:02Java programming, which often included team assignments and team
50. 03:07tasks, right? In the context of this course he will mainly
51. 03:12be responsible for week one. He will be introducing
52. 03:16tools and technologies to support remote collaboration.
53. 03:20Some facts about Tom: his favorite musicians are the Stranglers,
54. 03:24Blondie, and Willie Nelson. He learned a lot about teamwork
55. 03:29by being the drummer of several bands, he no longer drums...
56. 03:34A little bit sometimes ... but not for us ... not for you.
57. 03:37Not in the course, you won't see me doing that... But,
58. 03:40get this, his most extreme experience with team collaboration and
59. 03:47team work was through, living in a shared housing with twenty-
60. 03:52eight people sharing one bathroom and one kitchen!
61. 03:57For about three or four years. Oh, my god, and you survived?
62. 04:01Yeah, I did, and it was fun!.... Absolutely...
63. 04:05So now that we've presented ourselves, we would like
64. 04:09to invite you to contribute as well, and introduce yourselves
65. 04:14with some fun facts, with some pictures,
66. 04:18your motivation, your expectations towards the course, and maybe
67. 04:20some comments about what you've seen so far.
68. 04:24We hope for lively discussions in
69. 04:28the forum, we hope to see you as as soon as possible in
70. 04:33the forums, and see your contributions!

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