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Why Not work distributed?
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Eric Sedor
Sun Jun 09 10:53:38 EDT 2013
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<h3>... if you want to work distributed, why not do it?</h3> <p>It helps me to try to actually list the problems, even if it sounds superficial at first, helps me sort out what the choices are. Here are the impediments that I have experienced:</p> <p>1. Because you have <strong>no choice,</strong> your boss works face-time, and you want to keep your job, or like your job, even. <br /><br />2. Because it does not fit your organization's <strong>existing culture</strong> and would be "career limiting" for you to try to establish that.<br /><br />3. Because you <strong>believe face-time</strong> is better for yourself - possibly you have a very good job and see no reason to personally change.<br /><br />4. Because you must be <strong>physically present</strong> to do your job. For example, you are part of 6 circus acrobats, that must train daily, or a member of a surgical team. (wait, on "some" surgical teams, for many physical teams, change is underway, right?) <br /><br />5. Because of an <strong>existing competitive advantage</strong>. You and your company are highly successful with face-time, and you want to keep that advantage over your competition. You don't believe others can compete without the same face-time costs, like office buildings, travel, etc. and that results in higher "barriers of entry" for your competition. (wait, on "some" face-time industries, change is underway, right?)</p> <p>6. Because you <strong>don't know how</strong> to create a fully distributed work force or project? For example, if you are a leader, you don't know how to establish an effective way of working for a distributed team when everybody is accustomed to working face-time (wait, lots of folks are accustomed to living-socially in distributed "worlds", change is underway, right?)<br /><br />7. If you are a manager: Even if you know how to manage face-time team, <strong>managing</strong> distributed teams require <strong>different approaches</strong> than you have honed as a face-time manager.<br /><br />8. If you a team leader or team member: Even if you know how to be successful with <strong>team work</strong> where everybody works at the same place, working in fully distributed requires <strong>different approaches</strong> than you have honed as a face-time worker.</p> <p>9. Possibly, you have already work completely distributed, you already know how to do it. Or, maybe this is already part of the way you socialize and the way you play, the way you grew up. Even though you are <strong>already able to</strong> work in a fully distributed workplace, you want to collaborate with others and <strong>help improve</strong> the techniques for distributed work-places, make it even better.</p> <p><strong>1, 2, 3, 4, 5, </strong>will exist as problems in some places forever but they are <strong>no longer universal. </strong></p> <p>There already are plenty of work places now using different approaches and there are plenty people highly skilled at creating a group results with many people they have never met ... so realize, you might already be able to work in a distributed environment - if you explore your options. Also, many existing organizations are recognizing this phenomenna and establishing various tele-working and other sorts of distributed work environments as experiments so it might soon be possible in your current environment - if you nudge it along.</p> <p>We have been operating our company with distributed work teams for about 10 years and as we have been iterating (build.break.learn) about distributed-work, we developed a tool, named the <strong>BlueJeanTime</strong> cloud, that we use ourself. Pretty much, we have an effective way of<strong> dealing with 6, 7, 8, 9 that works </strong>for us, and that will work well for many others doing distributed work.</p> <p><strong>BlueJeanTime </strong>cloud is available to <strong>use for free</strong> for any teams trying to establish their own distributed work environments. We have a bunch of work processes that work effectively for us, some of which we are figuring out how to share. Also, we would like to share our experiences with other interested parties, in order to improve all of our distributed work processes.</p> <p>We are in business and will eventually have some form of advertisements in some public places. Also, we will write some additional apps, that users could buy (optionally, if they want to).</p> <p>If you are looking for a collaboration place that is has additional features <strong>set up for business work-teams</strong> instead of simply social, how about trying out what we are already using successfully? ... first self-register (on front page), ask us any questions, try out our features, let us know?</p> <p>Thanks for reading and thinking about this stuff.</p>
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Eric Sedor
Jun 21, 2013 5:02 PM
Helga Schoeman
Jun 20, 2013 12:10 PM
Phoebe Carson
Jun 20, 2013 11:07 AM
Anthony McBorrough
Jun 16, 2013 1:27 AM
Novita Sulistio
Jun 15, 2013 7:16 AM
Eric Sedor
Jun 09, 2013 10:57 AM
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