Before I started working remotely, I worked for a big eCommerce company with headquarters in Texas, leading a team of developers in Mexico. When I joined, it was a mess how the communication was done. From the requirement definitions, to the release. It was very common for the requirement to be released to live just to be rolled back and reworked.

I noticed that if you want to change the way things are done on the first day, you'll get a lot of rejection from the team. So when I joined, I started analyzing how things were done. After getting familiar with the process, I started implementing agile/scrum methodologies step by step. After a while we ended having specialized teams. It helped a lot getting things organized. We kept growing, having a juniors team, where I spent a lot of time code reviewing for them to later join the other teams. I also opened the QA team to automate the testing before releasing. I helped reduce errors and helped improve workflow.

Last year I was PMing a blockchain project that has been missing deadlines for a year, and I was hired to solve that. Being a remote manager is not for everyone as traditional managers like to see people at their desks. Remote managers need to work smarter.