Team Durumi
Team Durumi is currently a development team working across several different areas. There are five of us. We were mainly operating as a three-person team in 2020, and later returned to a five-person structure. We use code across many kinds of development work. In 2022 we are working on many JAMSTACK-related projects.
Web Service Development
We design and build problem-solving IT services so that startups, civil society groups, and nonprofit organizations can focus more efficiently on the issues they are trying to solve. Rather than delivering a fixed solution, we build around the scenario, issues, and operating conditions of each organization. We skip unnecessary steps, focus on solving the problem, and create a better process from there.
Digital Archive Services
We build digital archive services. For one of our more playful themes, we chose alcohol. What would a healthy alcohol archive look like?
Building services is also part of changing the way contracts and working methods are structured, and that is one of the team’s important goals. There is steady external demand, and if a team already has experience changing that kind of work, it is hard to walk away from it.
What Makes a Strong Remote Development Team?
To become a well-formed remote development team, each person needs a strong sense of ownership over their work. People need to move tasks forward on their own, or actively raise issues and conversations that need to happen. We are not physically far apart yet, but the agenda we need to achieve is clearly related to remote work.
In many of the real problems around this, contracts with clients, conversations with clients, communication with clients, and reporting are what make remote development teams difficult. We need an ongoing process for figuring out how to solve that well.