The pandemic resulted in a 100% remote working model for team members working in different time zones and different locations.Ìý
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Building software is a social activity. The team is trying to model a complex world into working code via analysis, design and communication. Remote working makes this hard.
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Studying many different teams has shown that some teams perform well without loss of productivity and extra stress, whilst other teams struggle to perform at the same level of productivity without putting in more effort.Ìý
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When teams moved to a hyper-distributed environment, they ended up in one of two states: Fatigue or Happily Productive.
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Ranked by importance, patterns that are common to all the high productivity teams are:
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Team Cohesion (discussed in this blog)
Engineering and Delivery