In this episode, Ron Evans of The Hybrid Group talks about being a part of a consultancy and the importance of reputation, balancing family and distributed work, and a wonderful project aimed at our youth to introduce them to coding at a young age and keep the Ruby community alive and thriving!
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Twitter: @deadprogram
The Hybrid Group
Kanban PadÂ
The Kids Ruby Project
Clutch
00:51 – Introduction
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- Ron Evans of the Hybrid Group a software consultancy with a dispersed team
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01:50 – Interview begins
02:05 – Ron’s background
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- Ring leader of The Hybrid Group: a development company based in L.A.
- Has developers in 5 countries, 4 different time zones, speaking in 4 different languages
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04:05 – Sustainable development
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Works on client programs already in progress
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Takes over an existing code base
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04:38 – Communication practices
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Uses real-time communication
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Has Skype chat room for each client and encourages client participation
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Transparency is essential
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06:00 – Being extreme
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- Times when distractions need to be eliminated
- Times when you need to be collaborative
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06:40 – Tools
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- Skype
- Ticketmaster
- Clutch: universal feed that allows you to track projects
- Kanban
- Kanban Pad
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11:45 – Consultancies
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- Reputation is key
- Caring gives you a competitive edge
- Treat client how you wish to be treated
- How can we make things better and improve as a provider of service
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14:10 – Building a remote culture
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- Geographic centers where you can cowork
- Silly customs can help build the culture of a dispersed team
- PBEOD: Production by end of day
- Deploy Master: rotating person in charge each day
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23:40 – History of The Hybrid Group
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Meet tons of like-minded people, especially at conferences
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Evolution of Ron’s previous consultancy
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29:35 – Pair programming and when to do it
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- Pairing is done to solve a problem and to have people looking at code collaborativly
- Screen-share-style pairing
- Pairing with a client
- Solving a particularly difficult problem
- Do anything all the time is not a good approach to solving problems
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36:48 – Does agile development work?
38:30 – Family and distributed work
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- Avoid commute times
- Choose your own environment for productivity
- Having control over your own destiny
- Investing in people rather than infrastructure
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41:50 – The Kids Ruby Project
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- Fantastic developers started programming very young
- Computer education in schools is decreasing for programming type jobs
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50:55 – Advice for future dispersed teams
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Cultivate an attitude of transparency
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Share information
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Truth will set you free
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Be ethical
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