Remote work coordination

Remote workers should be working in harmony, but people often don't know what others are doing and how everything fits together.

• Create formal processes that simulate the informal way; for example, stopping by a colleague's desk or eating lunch together. These interactions serve as course corrections.
• Managers should clearly articulate the mission, assign roles and responsibilities, create detailed project plans, establish performance metrics. They should also document all that and make it available offsite.
• Managers should model and enforce the processes until they are completely incorporated.