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7 guides on distributed teams. Practical writing from the team building Atlas, useful whether or not you buy anything.
Managing a distributed team is not managing the same team from further away. The coordination that used to be free now has to be built on purpose.
A distributed team does not fail from distance. It fails from the loss of the shared context that an office used to provide for free.
Remote HR is not office HR done over video. Distance changes what breaks and what matters, and the practices that work in person often fail when nobody shares a room.
Remote teams cannot gather at a physical whiteboard, but they can do better: a shared diagram everyone edits live, plus comments and history for the work that happens between sessions.
Remote work does not fail because people are not in a room together. It fails when teams try to recreate the room over video and miss the things that made the room work. Here is how to run a distributed team that is actually better than a co-located one.
Going remote is not the hard part. Learning to communicate without everyone being online at once is.
When your team is in one room, your tools can be a mess and you survive. When your team is in nine time zones, the mess is the whole story.
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