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Wide Teams Podcast Episode 1: Interview with Marty Haught

Posted on June 14, 2010May 14, 2012

In today’s inaugural episode of the Wide Teams podcast, I interview Marty Haught of Haught Codeworks. I also talk a little bit about the purpose and goals of the site.

http://media.wideteams.com/episode-001.mp3

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Show Notes:

  • Marty’s home page
  • Haught Codeworks
  • Talker
  • Campfire

00:30 – Purpose and Goals for Wide Teams site

02:12 – Introduce first of many interviews conducted at RailsConf 2010 in Baltimore, MD: Marty Haught, a software architect and engineer from Longmont, Colorado

02:28 – Interview Begins

02:41 – Marty’s introduction and background

03:05 – History with distributed work

04:00 – A day in the life with Marty and distributed work

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  • Morning Stand-Up
  • Talker, Campfire, Skype Apps
  • Pair
  • Apple Remote Desktop
  • Client Discussions
  • Centralized Feedback

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06:35 – Challenges of remote work

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  • Network Connectivity
  • Video Bandwidth
  • Timezones
  • Client hesitation that distributed teams are effective
  • Discipline with distraction and staying on task
  • Acclimating to being remote

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08:39 – Benefits of remote work

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  • Efficient
  • Easy to limit distractions
  • Team can stay focused with few client and co-worker interruptions

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09:54 – Tool wishlist

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  • Better screen-sharing tools
  • Better interactive screen-sharing tools

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11:56 – Advice for future remote workers and groups

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  • Trust your teammates
  • Standardize your tool-set

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13:25 – Wrap up

14:37 – End

3 thoughts on “Wide Teams Podcast Episode 1: Interview with Marty Haught”

  1. Evan Light says:
    June 14, 2010 at 1:24 am

    Why Talker instead of Basecamp? I’ve heard another shop mention Talker before too.

    1. Marty Haught says:
      June 14, 2010 at 10:21 pm

      The reason we used Talker on this project is to learn more about the tool. It has some interesting options for plugins and pulling in feeds. I think Campfire is more mature, especially if you have Propane, but I think Talker is a nice alternative. It’s also slightly cheaper but honestly that doesn’t matter much.

  2. Marty Haught says:
    June 14, 2010 at 10:23 pm

    One update on my interview, when I said Apple remote desktop, I was really referring to Apple screen sharing that was introduced in 10.5. Also, I’ve used TeamViewer as another pretty decent screen sharing alternative, http://www.teamviewer.com.

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