I had promised an update on remote work, and now it’s time make good on that promise. Back in September 2025, I had run a survey asking what topics were of most interest to my current …
Playing the Long Game of Remote Mentoring
In my last post, I shared how remote work requires shifting many ways of working and thinking about work. Remote workers often find new ways to improve their work through consistently learning …
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Who Takes Care of the Caretaker?
Many organizations continue to move forward with plans to bring people back into the office. Sometimes, this “move forward” feels more like one step forward and three steps back. This …
Your Next Workplace – Office, Remote, or Resilience?
2020 presented many twists and turns for all of us, and there are more to come. In August 2017, I began to co-author a book on successful distributed agile teams with Johanna Rothman. Our first …
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Remote Amplifies
Over this first half of 2020, most of the world now knows what long-time remote workers have known for years: Remote amplifies. Remote does amplify some obvious things like distance. But …
A Distributed Team Stroll Through Agile2019
Agile2019 showed a subtle theme of supporting distributed teams this year. As you may have heard in some of the podcasts I’ve joined, our book on successful distributed agile teams was …
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