When teams are remote, transparency suffers. The ability for managers to assign work and ensure that people are busy, happy and productive is significantly reduced.
Many managers and executives turn to turn-key digital products in an attempt to improve work visibility only to find the tools ineffective. Tools are ineffective, not because people don’t know how to use them, but because they don’t change people’s work behaviours. It’s work behaviours such as goal alignment and collaboration, along with connectedness and clear structures, that need to change when people start to work remotely to provide transparency.
The most effective way to understand whether a current team is at risk and needs support to move to remote working or work from home is through using Agile IQ®.