Well, now the other tought question and actually a problem with which I am trying to fight now. As I mentioned before, we have team of people who are distributed all over the places. Really, far away from each other. They do not socialize together. They do not know each other in personal way. They just work together. And, unfortunatelly, that brings some problems. One developer doesn't like other developer because of some reasons, and one designer doesn't like other designer because of different nuances. And developers with designers just hate each other, sometimes just because they are different. ;-) Well, in a real onsite team we can try to bring people together, let them spend time together. Some can be friends, and usually, the closer team is altogether, the better results we are getting from their work. But what should we do with offsite people? That's really a problem. Conference phone calls and/or chatting? Come on, it's not a "bringing people together" technique.
Any helps or suggestions? Of course, sometimes I hear that it's just the way IT IS, in offsite teams, and you have to accept it, or build other team. We cannot afford to have all the professionals we need in one place, and especially, we cannot find time to build new team now. If we have to, we will, but, is it a really the only way out?
Thanks guys!