Hi folks, The Open Organization community has launched a new project, a "guide to distributed teamwork" aimed at helping readers understand how open principles and practices can help remote teams overcome challenges associated with working together at a distance—and I'm hoping you'll consider contributing.
The guide seeks experiences, guides, best practices, and exercises that demonstrate how an open approach to work can help distributed teams succeed. I'll reproduce the guide's working description at the end of this announcement. You'll find the project here: https://github.com/open-organization/open-org-distributed-work-guide Want to contribute but need an idea? Consider this list of potential topics: - Best practices for remaining transparent at a distance - Building and maintaining trust on distributed teams - Fostering community remotely - Making distributed work equitable - How managers can best support distributed teams - Challenges managers face as part of distributed teams - Communication practices typical of high-performing remote teams - Establishing and maintaining social norms and contracts transparently and collaboratively - How open communities and projects maintain accountability - Making decisions asynchronously You can get started right away by swinging by our GitHub repository and adding your two cents—or reach out to me (or another Open Organization community member) directly. I hope you'll consider participating! BB ---- About the Guide Distributed organizations are more common than they've ever been. And the challenges to working together at a distance have never been more pressing. Across all industries and geographies, teams are rethinking how they operate—and questioning fundamental assumptions about the nature of work. In this guide, we'll explore how adopting open principles and practices—the same ones that have guided open source software communities across decades of innovation-at-a-distance—can assist remote, distributed teams grappling with their own remote work challenges. How can highly distributed teams collaborate on industry-shaping innovations when they'’re scattered across the world? How can they make decisions, take action, and hold one another accountable when they’re working in different places, and at different times? How do they achieve communication and ensure equitable relationships when they aren’t co-present? How do they maintain their passion and engagement when they haven’t seen one another for weeks, months, or years? Open organizational principles—like transparency, inclusivity, adaptability, collaboration, and community—can catalyze high-performing teams anywhere, even (perhaps especially) when their members are far apart. This guide offers remote, distributed teams (those working remotely for the first time, as well as those with extensive remote-work experience) a guide to the open principles and practices essential for building dynamic, inclusive, high-performing teams—no matter where their members happen to be. _______________________________________________ Openorg-list mailing list Openorg-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/openorg-list
