Many companies without a formal distributed work program may still find themselves needing and wanting to support distributed teams. Here are some ways that a team may become distributed:
* your company decides to delegate some specific chunks of work to a group in another location; e.g., programming to India, QA to Colorado. However, you still want to make sure these groups stay in sync with the rest of the team.
* the company acquires a new company, and is eager to integrate a newly acquired employee (and their skills) into an existing team or project
* a person with required skills is found in a different location, and no one with the required skills is available in the same location as the rest of the team
* two or more teams merge, with each team in a different location
* the company may decide to close a campus for real estate or other reasons, and may not want to relocate all of the employees (nor lay them off)
* a local or national government, for pandemic reasons, orders all offices within the city limits to close for two weeks to stop the spread of a flu or other disease. How can you keep your company still working?
There are more examples of this, so I’ll continue this list in a future post. I’ll also discuss how to approach the issues and finding best practices to help these teams.
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