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copied!<p>We have a team that is distributed or has to work across 3 or 4 different timezones. In the course of this we have faced several challenges primarily relating to communication.</p> <p>Meetings are tough to arrange at a convenient time for all team members to attend, so there can sometimes be a need to have subsets of the team meeting, or to forego the team meeting approach for an individual update approach where one primary team member is responsible for a particular overseas team.</p> <p>Another issue is work handover and communication. For example, we have a resource in India and if they have a problem that causes them to stop work, it can take 2 or 3 days out of their schedule if we don't respond quickly enough, all due to the time difference. Therefore, it is imperitive that we not only schedule diverse work to fill these delays but that we also respond to their queries in a timely manner. We often assign testing tasks to resources in this particular timezone as that is often an asynchronous task without an end.</p> <p>In addition, you need to have a good change management system and code repository. The more asynchronous you can make the communication channels, the better, and this goes for information exchange as well (such as source and issue tracking).</p> <p>There is no reason why you can't make distributed teams work, especially in the current age where we can work from almost anywhere as long as we have a link to the Internet. However, it's important to know where your bottlenecks are in a project and to ensure that work is distributed accordingly.</p>

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