Podcast #28: Shane Pearlman of Shane & Peter

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Podcast #23: Interview with Rob Dempsey of LifeOfTheFreelancer.com (Part 2 of 2)

Part two of a conversation between Rob Dempsey of LifeOfTheFreelancer.com and myself. In this part we dig into the intersection of freelancing and distributed teams: the phenomenon of ad-hoc teams composed of independent consultants who come together to work on a specific project. If you're a freelancer trying to figure out how you can take on bigger jobs, you need to check out this episode.

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Wide Teams Podcast #21: Interview with Tony Amoyal

Can you work remotely from a snowboarding vacation in Montana? Software developer Tony Amoyal says "why not?". In this episode, he and I discuss the tradeoffs involved in being part of a software team while staying mobile.

30Nov2010

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Wide Teams Podcast #20: Interview with Thomaz Leite

In this episode, a discussion with software developer Thomaz Leite, who lives in Missouri and collaborate with team members in Michigan, Portugal, and Brazli. He introduced me to an new Open Source VoiP tool that competes with Skype, and talked about doing pair programming with remote team members.

23Nov2010

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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!

11Oct2010

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Wide Teams Podcast Episode 15: Intridea

Intridea is one of the largest fully dispersed software companies that I'm aware of, and they are still growing fast. I've talked to them before - back in episode 9, I spoke with Michael Bleigh. When I visited the Ruby Hoedown in Nashville a few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to talk to a whole passel of Intrideans. We talked about why Intridea chose to build a distributed team, how they manage software teams that are spread across the world, and the tools they have used and built to facilitate communication.

07Sep2010

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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.

30Aug2010

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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 4: Interview with Mike Zazaian, Part 2

In this episode of the podcast, listen to the conclusion of my interview with Mike Zazaian at RailsConf 2010. In it we talk about the importance of getting to know your remote team members as people, and we discuss the state of remote collaboration tools, among other topics.

14Jun2010

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