Upgrading Digital Service Development With Enhanced Distributed Teams

Remote working and enhanced distributed teams (EDT Model) are the future of digital service development. Onsite consulting and offshoring will be trending down.

Remote working frees talented people from 1) losing time with family when commuting to an office for 2 hours every day and 2) having to live in an expensive city just because of work.

Remote working frees companies from spending up to $20k per person for office space per year and gives them access to the global talent pool.

Enhanced Distributed Teams model (EDT Model) works as follows: Say, a client in London wants to build a digital service with a team of 20 experts. Four experts are located in London and can work at client's offices if needed. Sixteen experts are located in four different countries around the world and work as a seamless distributed team.

EDT Model gives fantastic benefits:

• Best matches between tasks and talent
• Cost efficiency (only 20% of the project team lives in an expensive city)
• Rapid scaling up of project teams
• Better work/life balance for the project team via remote working
• More active project hours per day due to timezones

One day, our children will scratch their heads when we say that we used to have $3k worth of mobile work equipment (phones, laptops, tablets) and were carrying them every day to sit in the same room 10 miles away for 8 hours.

Yes, face-2-face interaction is essential, but well-executed Zoom, Teams & Miro workshops can easily match physical meetings' efficiency.

If your organization is not part of the remote working & EDT Model movement yet, now is the time to act. Start small, then build towards total change from there.