Difficulties in Managing a Remote Team

Distance teams are legitimately named because one or more people have significant geographic space between where they work and where others on the team work. We most often think of this geographic space as being between one country and another. However, a distance team’s members could be located at different points in one country, or even at different campuses in the same town.

The distance between the project players begets the problem. This distance can mean time spent shuttling back and forth to different buildings, or it can mean distance equating to time zones where face-to-face meetings are not an option. And difference in time zones brings not only difficulties in scheduling conversations during everyone’s normal workday but also issues concerning the different cultures of which people are a part.