In this episode, Bob McWrirter of Red Hat, talks about communication as in artifacts created by tooling, remote workers as black sheep, and gaining notoriety via open-source.
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Show Notes:
Bob McWhirter (twitter / blog / Red Hat / Project Odd)
00:47- Introduction & Background
- Has worked at Red Hat for the past 6 years
- Has been in the remote industry for 15
- Lives in rural Virginia
01:40 – History with remote work
02:46 – Red Hat
03:58 – Daily life
- IRC
- Jira
- Google Hangouts
05:13 – Open-source experience & team management
- Communication: artifacts created by tooling
- Team memory
07:58 – Commit messages
09:26 – Email/mailing lists
10:04 – Dividing work
11:48 – Poor remote work experiences
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Remote workers = black sheep
15:21 – Reasons to work remotely
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Flexibility
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Hours
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Measuring production
17:42 – Building notoriety via open-source
About the Author: Avdi Grimm
Avdi has been leading and participating in dispersed software development teams since 2007. He works from home in Southern Pennsylvania, and loves the fact that working remotely enables him to spend more time with his wife and five (soon to be six) children. Related Posts
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