As you know the one of the most important factors in distributed team is communication. Communication is really important for team in general, and the main challenge of communications in distributed teams is a question: how to organize high-quality communication inside distributed team? The friendship in a team is important, how can we reach it in a distributed team?
The basis of successful distributed team is amazing communications between team-members. Everybody must feeling free to communicate with co-workers, doesn't hestigate to ask questions or propose new ideas. All of it depends on quality of communication, on used tools and so on. I'm going to show you several cases, from the worst possible communication to the best one.
| Type | Quality level | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phone call, email | The worst | Forget about productivity work, you don 't have distributed team, you have two independent teams that can work only on different independent projects | |
| IM chating (Skype, ICQ, Jabber - no video calls) + Phone call, email | Bad | You still have bad level of communications, the team can work on related projects. Also, possible to have dedicated management part of team, that a distributed from development team, but it's acceptable only for simple projects (simple and cleare requirements) | |
| IM chating, video calls, email | Good | You have distributed team, that can effectively work on one project and reach results just on time | |
| All of the above + your teams meet each other face-to-face on regular base (each 3-6 monthes) | Perfect | You are champion! The best of possible communication level has been already reached and you are working in great team on the success product |
At the and I'd like to suggest two beautiful presentation about distribution teams:
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