An agile project is starting with team members located in multiple countries. To connect the team and improve overall productivity, what should the project manager do?

Bringing distributed agile teams together periodically fosters stronger bonds, improves communication, and enhances collaboration, which directly boosts productivity. This face-to-face interaction helps build trust and a shared understanding that virtual meetings alone often cannot achieve. Scheduling separate meetings with each region makes the project manager a bottleneck and hinders direct team collaboration. Scheduling weekly meetings with regional key contacts creates an information silo and can lead to miscommunication or delays, as information is not directly shared across the entire team. Keeping all meetings at the same time based on headquarters' time zone is impractical and inconsiderate for team members in vastly different time zones, leading to burnout and decreased participation.