The Wide Teams Podcast
A weekly podcast featuring interviews with people who are making dispersed teams work day by day.
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Wide Teams Podcast Episode 19: Interview with Steven Willmott
In this episode of the Wide Teams podcast, I interview Steven Willmott. of 3Scale. We talk about supporting clients in multiple timezones, what you do when one of your developers who lives on a mountainside and generates his own power gets hit with a snowstorm, and much more!
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5 myths of remote work
Working in a dispersed team has its share of challenges, but some of the fears that people have about remote work simply aren't born out by the experience of real-world teams. Here are a few if the more common misconceptions I've encountered.
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Wide Links #9: Smart, Productive, Agile
It's been a while since I did one of these. In this edition, productivity tips, videos, notes on distributed Agile processes, and more.
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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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Wide Teams Podcast Episode 11: Interview with John McCaffrey
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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Wide Teams Podcast Episode 10: Interview with Aslak Hellesøy
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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Wide Links #8: I’m on a Train!
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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09Aug2010
Screencast: PiratePad Video Test Drive
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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Wide Teams Podcast Episode 9: Interview with Michael Bleigh
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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