Connecting Remote Workers to Scrum: What Tools Are There?

Question

Agile

We have a scrum team (so far, one, a test one). In general, we are working on processes, everything is going fine, but there is one thing: We have 1-2 remote employees in the team (the rest are in the office). It is very inconvenient to confer with them via Skype from a laptop. Employees have limited visibility of us (this is if I don’t rummage around the monitor during planning), we don’t see the employee well. Sounds bad, etc. And I would like the remote employee to be minimally different from the office during meetings.

Now the question is: What technical and software tools can you suggest that, at an adequate price, will help solve the issue of meetings with remote employees? I want everyone to be as comfortable as possible, and so far I have not come up with a simple solution

Answer 1

And I would like the remote employee to be minimally different from the office during meetings

According to Scrum, everyone should sit in the same place.
But in general, you need something like in Star Wars :)
Or just connect the speakers to the laptop to start trying, but it may not work. It all depends on you and on the employees at the other end.

Answer 2

Rallies by Skype or phone, current activity in Trello. You can live. But in general, a distributed team is not always very convenient. Unless the team working on one project/subsystem is located in one city, and on another - in another. In this case, you need to interact less with colleagues from another city, less inconvenience.

Answer 3

Let employees do not skimp on a good camera with a microphone. Or you compensate them. The quality of communication and images greatly affects the liveliness of communication. Notebook "eyes" - this is just nafig.
Such a solution is cheap, but it can already help at the first stage. Then see what else you can do.