Working Together Apart: Collaboration over the Internet (Paperback)

Increasingly, teams are working together when they are not in the same location, even though there are many challenges to doing so successfully. Here we review the latest insights into these matters, guided by a framework that we have developed during two decades of research on this topic.

This framework organizes a series of factors that we have found to differentiate between successful and unsuccessful distributed collaborations. We then review the kinds of technology options that are available today, focusing more on types of technologies rather than specific instances. We describe a database of geographically distributed projects we have studied and introduce the Collaboration Success Wizard, an online tool for assessing past, present, or planned distributed collaborations. We close with a set of recommendations for individuals, managers, and those higher in the organizations who wish to support distance work.

越來越多的團隊在不同地點進行合作，儘管這樣做存在許多挑戰，但成功的例子也越來越多。在這裡，我們根據我們在這個主題上二十年的研究所開發的框架，回顧了最新的見解。

這個框架整理了一系列因素，我們發現這些因素區分了成功和不成功的分散協作。然後，我們回顧了當今可用的技術選項，更關注技術類型而不是具體的實例。我們描述了我們研究過的地理分散項目的數據庫，並介紹了協作成功嚮導，這是一個用於評估過去、現在或計劃中的分散協作的線上工具。最後，我們提出了一系列建議，供個人、管理者和組織中的高層支持遠程工作。