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Interpersonal conflict on any team can impact an entire team—and for distributed teams, it can be devastating. When remote team members are in conflict, the rest of the distributed team can only guess …
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It’s natural to feel challenged in leading your first distributed team. Whether you are a product owner or ScrumMaster accustomed to embedding with a single Scrum team—or an agile coach experienced in …
When first leading distributed agile teams, a key challenge that can sneak up on you is onboarding a new team member. You cannot show them around the office. You cannot take them to lunch with their …
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When I was following more traditional project management approaches over a decade ago, I was under tremendous stress to get my staff to do the right work and meet the right deadlines. In making the …
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A key success factor for distributed teams is their ability to selfmanage. Fostering team selfmanagement is an essential skill for the team leader working in complex distributed environments. In the …
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Some of the best agile software teams I ever worked with communicated well, would push hard to meet deadlines, supported each other when struggling with issues, and went above and beyond to maintain …
