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by Simon Baker.
Original Post: Distributing teams is a silly thing to do
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I'm happy to see that more people are uncompromising and are speaking out against doing the silly things that people justify with "that's reality". We create reality and we can therefore change it. Where there's a will there's a way.
"Distributed teams are not teams; they are at best a collection of people who communicate regularly. But communication is not collaboration. A distributed team cannot create the kind of energy that comes from human eye contact, from shared spontaneous laughter, from physical touch. True collaboration requires all five senses. Distributed teams require managers, and thus can never be truly self-organizing. Time differences and delayed response times inevitably slow down conversation, hold up decisions and ultimately cripple agility."
Distributed teams can never be that agile so stop pretending they can. Find ways to colocate. It's not impossible.
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