There’s a temptation to burden remote workers with a tonne of metrics.
When managers don’t trust their staff to be productive at home, the staff are often closely scrutinised with daily standups, daily roundups, and to-the-minute time tracking.
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Office to Officeless
When espousing the benefits of Distributed Teams, as I often do, I’m often told “but Luke, remote work wouldn’t succeed in my business”. And do you know what? You’re right.
Is it possible to transition from office to officeless? Not with that attitude.
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Mixing Remote and Local Teams
Having a mixed location workforce feels like a natural step when transitioning to a fully distributed business, yet this intermediate step can present its own unique challenges.
Integrating remote workers into a non-remote team can be difficult because they don’t share physical office interactions with the local team.
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Product Development Strategy
When great ideas happen, it’s important to be ready with a Product Development Strategy so that your idea can grow into a product.
Who doesn’t love a step-by-step guide? When I’m working through a new product idea for myself or a friend, this is the process I go through.
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Hypothesis Driven Development
An important tool for every Ideas Person. Hypothesis Driven Development is the difference between wandering and way-finding.
Light bulb moments. They happen all the time. You stumble into a pain point or discover a problem and think “Somebody should solve that…”. Then you realise that you should solve it.