Episode #58: Bob McWhirter of Red Hat

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

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• Has worked at Red Hat for the past 6 years
• Has been in the remote industry for 15
• Lives in rural Virginia

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01:40 – History with remote work

02:46 – Red Hat

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• JBoss
• Codehaus

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03:58 – Daily life

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• IRC
• Jira
• Google Hangouts

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05:13 – Open-source experience & team management

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• Communication: artifacts created by tooling
• Team memory

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07:58 – Commit messages

09:26 – Email/mailing lists

10:04 – Dividing work

11:48 – Poor remote work experiences

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• Remote Worker, Distributed Team: Bob McWhirter
• Remote workers = black sheep

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15:21 – Reasons to work remotely

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• Flexibility
• Hours
• Measuring production

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17:42 – Building notoriety via open-source