formal What replaces "walking around"? informal in person telephone conference Access Grid Management Multiple work packages Coordination Multiple teams Meetings Performance management? Video conference Impact of local cultures MegaMeeting etc Multiple institutions Is travel expensive? Or is project failure worse? “… trying to force homogeneity on distributed groups of collaborators is futile.” "Rendezvous" Teams on split sites Communications Resource access and control Co-ordinating e-research Isolated staff Different local cultures Distributed teams mailing lists How to "feel part of the team"? bulletin boards line management versus team management wikis calendars shared facilities intranets local requirements Reporting project requirements documents storage/repository computational resources Supporting services institutionally-based