16 Mattermost | Unblock Your Workflow ent tools anyway. To truly get away from tool fragmentation, you’ll have to go beyond basic integrations. Many teams are now turning to open source software to ensure that they can extend and customize tools to fit their workflows more precisely. Open source technologies allow you to build out more robust integrations with the functionality that your team needs. Team Distribution Collaboration Issues What’s the problem? Teams are more likely than ever to be fully or partially distributed. While over half of teams say that remote collaboration has gotten better in the last year, many still agree that team distribution is a significant blocker to developer productivity. According to a survey from Atlassian on collaboration, a whopping 82% of teams struggle with cross-function - al collaboration. As the lines between development, operations, security, and support teams become less clear, ensuring that everyone has access to the information they need when they need it is key. Solution: Improve Communication Culture and Tools to Optimize Collaboration While the past two years have been a crash course in remote work for many IT workers, truly effective remote work is a learned skill, and not everyone thrives in a remote environment without additional support. Organizational behaviors that worked fine in office environments often fall flat in remote environments, where in-person interactions can’t fill gaps in things like process documentation. Work on Improving Async Collaboration Practices It may seem like the best way to improve communication is to put more meetings on the books. But developer teams in particular also cite too many meetings as a major produc -