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In 2015, 23 percent of employees reported doing some of their work remotely, up from 19 percent in 2003, Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows.There are more globally distributed, virtual teams, working together today than ever before and startups need to adjust to this challenge when building products or services.We ourselves have faced this challenge a number of times and (literally) lost our sleep overcoming some issues.There is a possibility that many issues could occur when a team is scattered across locations.Time — Well, if there’s one thing that we cannot get back it is time. With a team that is not co-located, you may end up wasting a great deal of your precious time getting everyone in sync.Collaboration — What if — Mark doesn’t respond to the mail in time?, Leena couldn’t meet the deadline? Andrew is having another meeting? , Matt is babysitting? and so on. It’s could be a herculean task to get everyone on the same board to collaborate smoothly.Quality — A small bug in your product can bring the whole product down. To make it bug-proof, you need all your team members to be continuously in sync with each other.Speed — Technology is now changing faster than ever. You need to be too fast and too furious to keep up. Go-to-market has to be fast but sometimes when team collaboration is not managed effectively some problems get in between and you need to pull a handbrake.With all these challenges how can remote teams build successful products? Well, of course, there could be glitches in managing a remote team but they still work and can be as effective as co-located teams.So how do the most effective remote teams work?This is one of the key areas of Mindbowser’s focus and we constantly innovate to make ourselves more effective. As an agency, we go to every corner of the world to hire the best talent and work with them.Our strategy is simple and works effectively:Clear Documentation — In a co-located office, there’s no difficulty in sharing the information in-person. However, in a remote situation, everything needs to be shared via written communication. Therefore, train your team on creating and maintaining clear documentation. The task might seem too much, but it’ll make your life much easier. Use Google Drive, Dropbox or any other online service that helps you store and collaborate on documents online. Remember, over communication is always better than under-communication.A lot of Mockups — Building prototypes and testing them helps not just co-located teams but remotely located teams as well. Mockups are best because they are working replica of the product and they do not lie.Assign a Product Success Hero — Appoint a leader/manager to your remote team. The manager of a virtual team is like the conductor of an orchestra who synchronizes multiple actions.Conduct Design Sprints — You might have heard about Design Sprints before and might have thought of it as just another buzzword. Well, it’s not! It is a proven, scientific process of collaborative brainstorming which helps in assessing which features to build first and which ones to eliminate. It helps in saving development time and money by solidifying concepts and building the groundwork for wireframing and designing. (Ref — Mindbowser Design Sprints).So can you conduct design sprint if your team is not co-located? Absolutely! In fact, It is the best way to bring your remote teams together to solve a certain design or business problem.If you feel that my answer was of any help to you, then please do upvote it.

A strategy is something that is extremely subjective. It differs from person to person. Hence, I’ll tell you some of the elements that almost all the toppers’ of the UPSC CSE exam had, so we can say these are a part of the smart strategy:Preparing a strong foundation: It means that you’ve thoroughly read the syllabus of the exam in detail and know exactly what to read. It also means that you’ve glanced through the previous year's papers so you know how the questions are asked. It will help you in preparing the topics well enough!NCERT Reading: Most of the students skip reading NCERTs thinking that they are very basic. And all the standard books that we read would cover the content. It is true that most of the standard books cover a large part of what NCERT mentions. But, NCERT gives you a strategic way of presenting the answer with respect to Mains. And also, there are a few snips or additional information present in NCERT from where the questions are asked in Prelims every year. This is why you cannot miss reading NCERTs at least once. If you find it cumbersome to read it multiple times for revision, you can read it along with any good NCERT compilation and scribble your own notes on the compilation PDF. It will allow you to revise the NCERTs very effectively. (One of the better NCERT compilation can be found at telegram channel cl_civils)Consistent Revision: Don’t be in a hurry to complete the syllabus. Always set aside 20% of your study time for revising what you’ve studied the previous day. Only a consistent revision can help you in the long run! As it is always said, UPSC is a marathon, not a sprint. Hence, don't chase short term goals like completing Polity in one week. it is not possible to remember something that you’ve just brushed through this hastily for a long time! Hence, give the subject their due importance and time and revise consistently.Mock-test based learning approach: It is always a good idea to assess in which direction your preparation is heading! Mocks are the best way to get this idea. Always sit for section mocks, subject-wise mocks, etc to assess the level of your preparation!Answer-writing practice: Practice answer writing after you’re done with 50% of the syllabus. Dedicate at least an hour each day to practice writing answers based on what you’ve studied. It is extremely important. And you’ll improve over time, so don’t worry if your answers are not that good initially!Don’t shy away from seeking external guidance: Once you’ve cracked the exam, it won’t matter if you took external guidance or not. So, if you think you lack the knowledge about the exam or you need coaching, go for it! There are various options available even at extremely affordable fee options. So, you can check out their demo videos online and enroll in their courses!These are some of the elements that a good UPSC CSE preparation strategy would always have! You can add to it in the comments. Hope this helps. All the best :)

There are a number of methods you can use to find insights to the answer of this question.Ideally, you’d like to figure this out in a way that uses a minimal amount of resources (time, money, people) so that you aren’t in a situation where you are trying to scale something up before you even know if it's viable.You can always start by doing some research on the market size (based on your initial assumptions) and looking at the competitive landscape.This can give you some very raw guidance as to if anyone else is having success in the market and how big the current market appears to be (these are not sure-fire market predictors, but can be very helpful).I’d then recommend doing some form of a “design sprint” which can be a great way to get answers to your core questions and assumptions quickly and cheaply. I’d recommend the book Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days eBook: Kindle Store to learn more about how to do this in detail.In summary:Find the main question you want to get answered. In this case, it may be something about what the biggest hurdle to people using your product is. Or even some version of your product distilled down to just its core feature.Sketch a lot of solutions that would allow you to test the question. You should do this by hand and don’t try to make them perfect, just make a bunch of them.Pick one of the sketches that you and your team feels best addresses the question.Figure out how to prototype it very quickly. The purpose of the prototype is User Testing, not production…so in many cases, this can be completely faking it.Arrange user tests with people from your target audience and assess how valuable the product appears to be to them and if it solves your “main question”.The above is a great framework to get started and try to get answers quickly.But you can even just skip to step #5 and start interviewing potential users before building anything.It can sometimes be hard for people to visualize a product without seeing some visuals and also sometimes people won’t tell you the truth because they don’t want to be mean…but even so, just asking questions can give you a lot of answers very fast.It's incredible how many people avoid doing this.Another important question to get the answer to if you are working on a technology product is viability and technical constraints.For example, in 2011 I wanted to work on an Augmented Reality product for smartphones.But most of their processors could not yet support very advanced AR experiences.Always better to know that kind of thing beforehand!