Teams can accomplish more than their individual members or mere groups. A gelled team can accomplish extraordinarily more than a typical team; but very few teams actually gel. Remote distributed teams are increasingly common but even less likely to function as teams, let alone gel. Part of the difficulty stems from failure to understand what a team is, what it means to gel, and what it takes for a team to gel. Then there’s the whole challenge of doing it when team members are not physically together…

• What differentiates a team from a mere group.
• What it means for a team to gel and how it beats teamwork alone.
• Keys to making a team gel and making it happen remotely.

Robin F. Goldsmith, JD is President of Go Pro Management, Inc. consultancy and past President and current Vice President of SQGNE. He advises, assists, and trains business and project professionals to get right results right through Proactive Testing™, Proactive Software Quality Assurance™, discovering REAL business requirements, REAL ROI™, project and process management and metrics, and Beyond the Textbook™ software acquisition and outsourcing. Author of Discovering REAL Business Requirements for Software Project Success and the forthcoming Cut Creep—Write Right Agile User Stories and Acceptance Tests, he regularly contributes to international standards. A client described Robin’s unique problem-solving ability, “He understands us better than we do.”