With the rise of remote working, distributed teams and online collaboration the impact of good communication and healthy work (and online) spaces has become one of the most important factors in the success or failure of projects. Unfortunately we sometimes tend to underestimate our own roles in being a good and healthy team or community and don't always put in the work necessary to be successful in these areas. 

The “Tech/Business Gap” is what we call the misunderstandings, for example, between the people building a technical product and the people who need to sell it. These often result in teams or individuals pulling in different directions within a company—even when everyone believes they’re working towards a common goal.

Among various factors that cause this “gap,” it often boils down to communication challenges. Even though we’re talking about internal problems, one path to success is building consensus via an external communications strategy.

Successful projects are essentially built on great teamwork. In this session, I will present 7 practical advices on how we can ensure projects go well and are delivered smoothly.

How can we as a team help each other, collaborate together and what we should take in consideration whether you are a developer, project manager or in another role in Drupal or decoupled projects. I will share tips and examples of what has been found useful in our daily work.

In this panel discussion, we discuss the current state of open source contribution as part of our daily life and work.

In this session, we'll learn about Mob programming:

This session is aimed at anyone that might have heard or read about “GraphQL” and is curious to know more about it. We will give a basic overview and try to answer questions such as:

• What is GraphQL?

• Is GraphQL only for decoupled projects?

• Can I use it with Drupal?

• Why would I want to?

• How do I get started?

After almost 10 years of remote work - mostly from home - I figured out the factors that can cripple my productivity, sway my life-work balance into the wrong direction and lead me towards a couch potato lifestyle. What are those pitfalls and how am I trying to avoid them? And most importantly, is it working?