We pay too much attention to the idea of skill and talent. Often, time on task, trumps talent. Could this be the secret to doing excellent work, having a resilient career and building excellent teams? We explore that question in this article.

If you adopt asynchronous work, everyone should be able to work on a schedule that’s convenient to them. But that may not be the case from day one. You must first build your deep-work muscle.

Distributed agile software development projects rely too much on synchronous communication. This not only leaves too little time for deep work, it also leads to burnout, less diverse teams and knowledge and information sharing practices that don’t scale.

Asynchronous work has the potential to transform distributed agile so it’s fun, sustainable, inclusive and scalable.