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Write a Team Handbook
On remote teams, clear documentation is often the most direct way to share information at scale. Yet, many teams avoid this until the point that a lack of documentation starts hurting. Some of this stems from a misconception about agile software development. People believe that if you’re working on an agile project, documentation is not necessary.
Martin Fowler says this:
Agile methods downplay documentation from the observation that a large part of documentation effort is wasted. Documentation, however, becomes more important with offshore development since face-to-face communication is reduced…. As well as documents, you also have more need for more active collaboration tools: wikis, issue tracking tools and the like. ...
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