Building ethical distributed teams through sustained attention to infrastructure

Communication Design Quarterly Jul 2022

Building ethical distributed teams through sustained attention to infrastructure

Michelle McMullin ; Hadi Riad Banat ; Shelton Weech ; Bradley Dilger

Abstract

Building sustainable infrastructure is a core principle of Constructive Distributed Work (CDW), an integrated approach to project management and team building. In this article, we explain the origins of CDW and describe the theory of sustainable infrastructure that underpins our approach to training, supporting, and coordinating work across a diverse and distributed team. We illustrate how mapping strategies can help us make infrastructure more visible, and therefore more available for reflection and iteration, and demonstrate how a participatory approach to developing and sustaining infrastructure helps our team maintain its commitment to more ethical and inclusive research practices.

Journal: Communication Design Quarterly
Published: 2022-07-01
DOI: 10.1145/3507857.3507861
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Topics: multilingual writers

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