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Of Tools and Chasms
There are a dazzling array of agile project management tools out there, with new ones being added every day. More and more of them are targeted at geographically dispersed teams, claiming to increase productivity, enhance communication, and improve our insight into the state of the project.
The hidden cost of these tools, however, can be complexity. I asked David J. Bland, an Agile coach and a speaker on distributed agile project management, to write about the pitfalls of complexity, and the virtue of using simple tools in a dispersed agile software development team.
01Dec2010
Screencast: Cardmeeting
One of the simplest, most versatile tools for meetings is the good ole' stack of index cards. Is it possible to recreate the experience of pushing 3x5 cards around on the table in a virtual meeting? In this video I demonstrate a free tool that does a pretty good job of it.
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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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Screencast: Flowdock Test Drive
Flowdock is a web-based hosted text chat application, along same lines as Campfire or Talker. Flowdock has some unique features which set it apart from those tools, which I demonstrate in this video.
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The Remote Toolkit: Google Drawings (screencast)
A quick walkthrough of the basic features of the new Google Drawing app, with a focus on remote collaboration features.
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