Sense-Making and Mindfulness of Interdependencies in Virtual Organizations

We are interested in investigating a means to support distributed collaborations by raising awareness of interdependencies. Interdependencies can exist amongst organizational units, the team, the individuals, and the product both across sites and within a single site. We propose integrating a series of tools that we have developed based on the principles of the Continuous Coordination (CC) paradigm. We suggest that integrating these tools will increase distributed stakeholders’ awareness and assist them in their sense-making and mindfulness processes. It can also lead to a better understanding of interdependencies and the impact of awareness on the distributed development process.