Making Remote Work ‘Work’ for Globally Distributed Teams

>>What does it take to build and manage a succesful remote team? A foundation of trust and open communication is a great start. But is that enough? In this article we highlight some great tips from Mission+, a Singapore based company that is taking remote working to the next level through its offshore execution teams, and its fractional CTO model. Helping companies both traditional and remote take advantage of the best talent working in globally distributed teams.<<

While researching offshore product development firms for my other company adeus, I stumbled across an incredibly insightful article written from the perspective of an outsourced partner, building distributed teams to support their clients remotely.

Ned Lowe from Mission+ provides one of the best guides I’ve read on how to make remote teams successful in his article Making Remote Teams Work. They have even developed a platform - appropriately named Mission Control - which helps distributed team members stay connected, and enables them to provide real time feedback. Not just on how the project is progressing, but on how engaged they are and how they are performing as a team, and as individuals.

The world of remote work is evolving fast and the last four years since the great WFH Experiment during lockdowns has significantly accelerated our understanding of what works, and in some cases what doesn't, when working in remote teams. What we do know from experience, and it’s backed up by numerous surveys, is that what works for office based teams simply can’t be transplanted to remote teams.

Communication is even more critical when working remotely, and unfortunately many more traditional companies are simply not good at communicating. It’s no surprise that Ned Lowe’s tips all have communication as a key theme. From building team structures that work, through to a culture of writing which I explored in my earlier article ‘Is Async the key to Remote Working?"‘

My co-founder and I are building adeus as a remote first company. It just makes so much sense working in a borderless way when building a company with global aspirations. We’re using the lessons learned from our previous experience, and I’ll provide updates here on that as we continue to build in public.