Writing With Distributed Teams
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The document discusses best practices for writing with a distributed team. It emphasizes the importance of clear communication, shared understanding, and establishing agreements around tools, processes, styles and emergency planning. Diversity is highlighted as an asset that can make distributed teams more successful. The document also stresses managing flexibility, shared ownership, accountability and sustainability.
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- 1. Writing With a Distributed Team @lauracreekmore
- 5. Exercise 1
- 7. Reality http://www.flickr.com/photos/familymwr/
- 9. What we want
- 10. What we want Managing flexibility
- 12. Shared understanding Shared understanding http://www.flickr.com/photos/myndemayfield/
- 15. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pfm/ Love the one you’re with
- 17. IM
- 18. Chat rooms
- 19. File sharing
- 20. Email
- 21. Web meetings
- 22. Shared calendar
- 24. When and how to break the rules
- 26. Emergency planning Agreement on emergency
- 27. Emergency planning Agreement on emergency Contact info for everyone
- 28. Emergency planning Agreement on emergency Contact info for everyone Designate on-‐duty
- 29. Emergency planning Agreement on emergency Contact info for everyone Designate on-‐duty Good Samaritan rules
- 30. Emergency planning Agreement on emergency Contact info for everyone Designate on-‐duty Good Samaritan rules
- 31. What we want Managing flexibility Shared ownership
- 32. Pre-Mortems
- 33. Culture
- 34. Planning
- 35. What we want Managing flexibility Shared ownership Accountability
- 36. But not CYA
- 39. Common ideas
- 40. Style guide
- 42. Simple: Pick one
- 43. Simple: Pick one More: Industry-‐specific usage
- 44. Simple: Pick one More: Industry-‐specific usage Customize: Org-‐specific info
- 50. We believe in excellence.
- 51. funny comforting serious hopeful reserved timely innovative honest consistent conservative helpful kind snarky robust irreverent lively
- 52. Showing voice and tone: Examples!
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- 67. What we want Managing flexibility Shared ownership Accountability Sustainability
- 68. Diversity
- 69. “While homogenous groups feel more confident in their performance and group interacNons, the diverse groups are more successful in compleNng their tasks.” —Bunkhuon Chhun, writing about the research of Katherine W. Phillips, Katie A. Liljenquist and Margaret A. Neale
- 70. Post-Mortems
- 71. Show and Tell
- 72. What we want Managing flexibility Shared ownership Accountability Sustainability
- 73. What we want ? Managing flexibility Shared ownership Accountability Sustainability