Create Resilience In Your Process By Following The Sun

Speed is one of the great enablers of resilience. If you can get feedback fast into your process, you can absorb changes like a vacuum cleaner.

Fast feedback enables resilience.

Photography by fdecomite.

By making use of multiple timezones, you can extend the duration of a “working day”. More can be done in a day. And if you do it right, feedback can be available faster.

“Follow The Sun is a type of global workflow in which tasks are passed around daily between sites that are many time-zones apart in order to reduce project duration. Thus, the work is “following the sun” and never stops.” (source)

Build in Asia
Design/Review in Europe
Test in South-America
Every day.
Every 24hrs.

Following the sun has additional benefits, all contribute to increased resilience:

“Access to global resource
Facilitate and enhance international partnerships
Pool skills and experience across all sites
Frequent peer checking leading to increased efficiency”

Globalization and virtualization create challenges.

They also provide the opportunities to overcome them.

I tend to forget.