In my last post I was talking about starting an open source office. I just wanted to add another point – The success of such a team depends on your selection of team members. This is true for any team based company but it is the most important aspect in an open office platform. In a regular space based office, you can actually inspire the co-workers in different ways like physical communication. But, if you solely depend on web in such an open space office situation, you must be careful about selecting your partners.
I know what you people are thinking: Who are you to select a partner? Are you the boss? This statement changes the whole concept of the open office where there is no boss?
I know and I partially agree with you. In an open office space, you are as powerful as a worker and a CEO. You have as much power as other team members in your team. But, if you have the power like everybody else in the team to select a new member, you also have the power to terminate the membership of someone who is not performing at all. At least you can raise the voice against a non performer.
You can also think about developing project based teams. For example, if you get a project of developing a PHP based regular website, you can create a micro company with PHP Programmer, designer, and content writer.
I would like to hear from you.
We are almost ready to launch our second team. We will soon publish the names of our Team B members. And we are also planning to write down different stages of our projects – for example, the project, our approach, stages of development, end result etc. Interested?
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