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Throughout this chapter we focus on asynchronous (ie, non-real-time) and geographically dispersed task contexts. This is an important distinction because most of the literature on team cognition has focused on synchronous (ie, same-time) and co-located teams (eg, flight crews, medical emergency units). However, work arrangements and the nature of the resulting dependencies will vary substantially depending on whether the team is separated by time or by distance. We begin our discussion by describing a unified framework of team coordination that incorporates both explicit and implicit coordination mechanisms. Next we discuss the importance of identifying key dependencies and coordination types for a given task. Finally, we summarize our conclusions. Throughout our discussion, we present examples and results from our empirical studies with (a) decision (asynchronous) teams that managed simulated …