Distributed Teams

A distributed (or "dispersed") team is a collection of individuals that work together on a project, each sitting in their own homes. The problems are not quite the same as outsourcing (where conventional teams are separated); or the kind of TeleCommuting where an individual is working from home, but their colleagues are in an office.

There's a website about dispersed team patterns: http://www.fastnloose.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/dad [BrokenLink 2006-10-05], and about a series of workshops on the topic.

The topic is also called "DispersedWorking" (using "Dispersed" to distinguish separation of the programmers from separation of the target software).

--AlanWills

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