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Managing Remote Teams

• If you can, face to face as much as possible

• Strategic, vision related items and negative situations should be dealt with face to face

• Tools appropriate for remote team, build into the culture for intentionality of communications

Tools

• Tools, while they may be cheap in $$, can be expensive in overhead and cost increases with integration

• End user adoption is key, tool is not good if people are not going to use them

Managing implementation of existing software

• If users aren't happy they'll revolt

• App don+t necessarily meet needs, it becomes a sales job to convince people it's going to be useful

Web Assessment and redesign

• Get in contact with your most passionate users and get input into your website design and process

• A mission driven redesign vs. coolness

• Trying to retain control of your technical destiny with open source platforms

Web Redesigns Part 2

• Redesigning can be often more difficult than starting from scratch

• When starting a redesign, addressing basic communication points. What people really want.

• Get results out quickly, try to keep moving forward