  Effective coordination is the key to successful agile teams. They rely on
frequent interactions and mutual adjustment to manage dependencies between
activities, which traditionally has been solved by co-locating the team. As the
world is adjusting to post-covid work-life, companies are moving towards a
work-from-anywhere approach where workers can choose to what degree they want
to work from home or office. However, little is known about coordination in
such a context. We report findings on developers' emerging strategies when
working-from-anywhere, from an exploratory case study in Norway, including
eight interviews. Our study shows that new strategies for mutual adjustment
emerged as teams experimented with different tools and approaches: developers
chose tasks according to location, tasks with vague requirements are performed
collocated while individual tasks requiring focus are best performed at home;
large meetings are virtual, preserving co-located time for collaborative tasks;
using virtual rooms to maintain unscheduled meetings as they communicate mental
presence to teammates, lowering the threshold for intra-team unscheduled talks.
The strategies can help organizations create a productive and effective
environment for developers.
