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Workshop - Mechanics of Good - Creating Well Functioning Distributed Teams

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What do those who succeed in having well functioning teams do differently from those who don’t? After running workshops on different international conferences based on this subject it is clear that getting distributed projects right is still a challenge. Driven by the off-shoring trend, we see lot of great opportunities for improvement on team collaboration. The necessary compromises may have a significant influence of the outcome. The purpose of the workshop is to further explore what challenges exists and share experiences on what works and what doesn’t; and why that is.

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Skår, L.A., Sandberg, JE. (2009). Workshop - Mechanics of Good - Creating Well Functioning Distributed Teams. In: Abrahamsson, P., Marchesi, M., Maurer, F. (eds) Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming. XP 2009. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 31. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01853-4_30

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