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Remote Working for Product Teams
The building, nurturing and scaling of distributed teams
Today it’s rare to find a company that doesn’t have some part of the team that isn’t distributed. Smaller teams may still choose to have a permanent office, but the larger an organization gets the harder it is to recruit and support all their teams in a single location.
Whatever the reason for working remote, distributed teams can be both a blessing and a curse.
In my research of high-performance teams, I’ve observed that almost all design and product teams often have a combination of co-located and remote workers. Some teams sometimes forgo this option completely and ditch the office completely. And, more frequently companies are created from inception with the intention to remain distributed for the life of the business.
Why Distributed Teams Is An Essential Conversation
Why should this distribution of work matter to designers? For one, creative work is a team sport. The lone designer or engineer is as much a work of fiction as it is impractical. Furthermore, the science of interpersonal communications suggests that when teams aren’t working face to face, communication changes. Facial expressions…
