7 Tips for Virtual Collaboration (Tips from Automattic - Company that runs Wordpress.com) Posted by wird on Sunday December 07, 2008 @01:24PM from the slideshare.net dept. http://www.slideshare.net/raanan/virtual-company-presentation ( 1 comment | 8 points | on HN )
Tip #1: Empower your team.
Tip #2: Go Real-Time & User IRC (Talk to each other in real-time in a searchable medium).
Tip #3: Go Semi Real Time (Use their prologue tool, or twitter to communicate).
Tip #4: Get Together (Have real world meetups).
Tip #5: Open Source your projects (Get others involved, increases your product shelf life).
Tip #6: Obsess over metrics (experiment, collect data, analyse).
Tip #7: Break down projects into bytesize tasks that can be worked on individually.