The Wide Teams Podcast
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Podcast Delayed
Just a quick note to say that this week's podcast will be delayed. I was at Ruby DCamp over the weekend so I didn't get a chance to put the podcast together. However, while I was there I recorded a roundtable discussion of dispersed team issues, so between that and the Ruby Hoedown interviews, there's some great content coming your way. Stay tuned!
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Screenshare-palooza
The ability to share your screen with a remote team member is an essential piece of the remote collaboration toolkit. When it comes to screensharing software, there is a dazzling, sometimes baffling array of options. Here are a few I know of.
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Wide Teams Podcast Episode 13: Interviews with Jody Alkema and Peter van Hardenburg
Two final interviews from RailsConf 2010 this week. The first is with Jody Alkema, a web developer with Domain 7 who spoke to me about his experience augmenting his Agile software team with some remote help. The second is with Peter van Hardenburg, a developer at Heroku who is transitioning back to a collocated team after a couple years of working remotely.
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Get up, stand up: Coordinating with a Daily Meeting
A short daily meeting is a great way to keep your team members on the same page. But holding a virtual meeting every day can pose special challenges. This article discusses different ways that real dispersed teams handle daily meetings.
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Wide Teams Podcast Episode 12: Interview with David Rogers
In this episode I talk to Ruby on Rails software developer David Rogers of Beacon Interactive Systems about his experiences working collocated, fully remote, and as a part of a mixed collocated/remote team.
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Netbooks: A Remote Worker’s Best Friend
A netbook can grant you great freedom in where you work from, but that's just the beginning. In this article I talk about the advantages of using a netbook as your primary videoconferencing device.
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