Remote Team HandbookbyLinksley.com
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Distributed teams fail at handover, not at work
Talk → decide → schedule → document
The hard part of remote is not the video call, it is the twelve hours between one person logging off and the next logging on. Everything below is chosen for that: written by default, findable later, and honest about time zones.
Talk & meet
Time zones & scheduling
Who this is for
Managers and members of distributed teams
The hard part of remote is the twelve hours between one person logging off and the next logging on. The norms list is the part worth agreeing out loud.
Decide & document
Remote norms worth agreeing
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- Core overlap hours written down, not assumed
- Decisions recorded in the doc, not only in the call
- Every recurring meeting has an agenda or it gets cancelled
- Calls recorded for whoever was asleep
- Response-time expectations stated per channel
- A named owner for every project, visible to everyone
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