Our experience on remoting is to keep frequent communication. For example, a daily scrum meeting in the morning for 10-15 minutes will help to align on priorities and resolve risks among the team.

Agree with @lidongsjtu. It's not so hard to keep your team up on remote – just dedicate your time to them. Dailies are a good way, really. Communication for remote teams is everything. I've been managing remote teams for almost 3 years already, and the dependency has always been the same: 1. You're in touch with your team every day – you win. 2. You barely communicate with your team – the productivity plummets.

I am a part of a remote team for 3 years. One of the most important rules is: you should be attentive to everyone and make sure that every voice is heard.

Been working with a remote team since 2009. We're spread across the US, Europe, and Asia. - It is important that everyone is clear on what they have to do, and what the company's goals are. - Everyone needs to have the discipline to work on their own and trust they'll get their part done. - We don't do daily's as some others are mentioning here. We are a small team, under 10. One weekly video call is all we do as far as everyone talking together. There are slack messages, 1-on-1's and async screen recordings happening in between that. I love remote, but team meetups are also important for everyone to have some face-to-face time. I'm excited to be flying my team to Tokyo this year for our annual meetup.

We also schedule one on one time across departments, sometimes with no agenda. The goal is to replicate some of that coffee/ watercooler moments.

Keeping communication channels simple and open helps a lot. Also a task shee which can track the progress of various tasks also helps people collaborate by clarifying the status and dependencies for the tasks