Business:Concepts:Principle:Remote Working
Summary
- Responsibilities above Processes.
- If responsibilities are clear, the process will emerge from the interactions of the collaborators
- Asynchronous Activities
- Work in a way that you don’t require or create the requirement for face-to-face communication
- Define Constraints, Obligations, Recommendations, Permissions upfront.
- Give people the responsibility to meet Expectations.
- Give people the responsibility to deliver transparency and results, not reports.
- Avoid calling meetings to report progress.
- Avoid Scheduling Others.
- Give flexibility to meet expectations.
- Avoid calling meetings. Especially recurring ones.
- Meetings are for solving what is hard when apart.
- Focus on bonding, brainstorming, providing and receiving feedback - not solving, recording.
- Decisions are not collaborative.
- Feedback and input is collaborative. The responsibility of decisions is singular.
- Collaborate on a single source of truth.
- Use an A8 accessible collaboration tool.
- deliver often to reprioritize effort as required.
- avoid processes, overhead and people management as much as possible.
- permit over control
- promote access to resources to meet responsibilities
- manage resources, not people or schedules.