I will share the top 5 problem areas I've identified, supported by examples. I will then share ideas on how to solve them. For top level, I will share how agile supports distributed collaboration and how leadership can scale agile with teams spread geographically. Then I'll move on to sharing dozens of practices I've seen distributed teams apply succesfully. I will also share some models and frameworks I've developed to help organizations manage distributed collaboration.

I will show the 'Distributed team canvas', a simple tool to help teams identify problems because of distribution + create actions to solve them. I will dive deeper into 2 important themes: cultural differences and how to bridge them effectively. Process and how to apply agile methodologies to a distributed setting. 

The top 5 problems I will discuss:
1. Us versus Them
2. Teams are in the dark
3. Culture is a mystery
4. We stop communicating
5. The black box

Solutions:
1. Self organization
2. Empathy
3. Engaged (proxy) product owners