In this edition: the US House approves a bill mandating more telework in government agencies; how to hire a remote worker; tools for distributed software teams; making the most of…
Tag: teams
The Wide Teams Bootstrap Guide, Part 4: Virtual Presence
You have your mail hub, your video/audio chat solution, and your text chat service set up. What other communications tools does your distributed team need? To augment Campfire or IRC,…
Wide Links #4
Notes on dispersed teams, from around the web. Today: Inc. magazine goes remote; studies show “vritual” teams can match or outperform collocated ones; and the latest in bathrobe fashion. The…
Wide Teams are Stagnant Teams
Distributed sucks. Human interaction is far better than virtual, all the more so for teams of any significant size. I have worked with successful distributed and local teams. The local…
The Wide Teams Bootstrap Guide, part 3: No message left behind
In a dispersed team, a good email setup and healthy mail habits are critical to success. In today’s installment of our getting-started guide for dispersed teams, I talk about the…
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…
The Wide Teams Bootstrap Guide: Part 2
In part 2 of this series, I talk about why face time is essential; the two types of realtime communication tool which should form the backbone of your day to…
Wide Teams Podcast Episode 3: Interview with Mike Zazaian, Part 1
This was the very first interview I conducted for Wide Teams. I couldn’t have picked a better subject for a first interview if I had tried, because Mike had such a wealth of insights to share that I had to split the interview into multiple parts. This is part 1.
The Remote Toolkit: Google Drawings (screencast)
A quick walkthrough of the basic features of the new Google Drawing app, with a focus on remote collaboration features. Photo credit: Fran Pregernik
The Wide Teams Bootstrap Guide: Part 1
Part one of a multi-part guide to getting started as a geographically distributed team. In this article I talk about the attitudes that form the foundations of an effective dispersed…