A weekly podcast featuring interviews with people who are making dispersed teams work day by day.
In this episode I talk to John McCaffrey, a software consultant who specializes in ironing out performance problems in Ruby on Rails applications. In the course of his consulting he works with dispersed teams, and in this interview he delivers a detailed rundown of the tools and workflow involved in doing Agile software development in a distributed team.
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A project management app is an essential tool for any dispersed team. Here are some suggestions to get you started.
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In this episode: an interview with Aslak Hellesøy, who talks about the contrasts between coordinating a large Open-Source project and a small dispersed team; the importance of constantly re-evaluating your tools and practices; and more. Also: theme music!
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Links about remote work and dispersed teams, from all around the web. In this edition: workshifting from the train; the disciplined remote worker; more evidence that telework increases productivity, and more.
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In the wake of Google's announcement that they are closing Google Wave, it seemed like a good time to showcase some of the tools that can offer subset of Wave's functionality. PiratePad is one such tool: a web-based, real-time rich text editor which makes it super simple to start sharing documents.
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In this episode: some thoughts on the Google Wave shutdown announcement, and talking to Michael Bleugh of Intridea about being part of a 50-person geographically distributed company.
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Today's interview is with Loren Johnson, a Ruby on Rails developerand a remote worker for most of his career. I talked to Loren at RailsConf 2010about some of the tradeoffs involved when choosing to live and work in ageographically isolated area, and the challenges of being the sole remote workeron a team.
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