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Wide Teams Podcast Episode 5: Interviews with Hashrocket and Rhomobile

Posted on July 12, 2010May 14, 2012

Two interviews in this episode. I talk to Jim Remsick and Paul Elliot of Hashrocket about why Hashrocket chooses to avoid remote work. And then, I talk to Brian Moore of Rhomobile about their globally dispersed team.

http://media.wideteams.com/wide-teams-podcast-episode-005-brian-moore-jim-remsik-paul-elliot.mp3

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Show Notes:

02:14 – Introduce Jim Remsick and Paul Elliot: developers at Hashrocket

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  • Limited experience with remote work
  • At Hashrocket, policy is to be co-located on one site and paired all the time

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04:06 – Stressing co-located work

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  • Everyone together
  • Culture and doing things outside of work

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05:40 – Advice to future groups considering remote work

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  • Don’t skimp on equipment
  • Overcommunicate

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07:14 – Distributed teams need to be improved

08:42 – Introduce Brian Moore of Rhomobile

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  • Mobile framework company in Campbell, CA

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09:16 – History with distributed work

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  • International
  • Daily standup meetings for communication
  • Skype, messaging, email contact
  • Coordinating timezones

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11:05 – Challenges of working remotely

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  • Communications barrier (language)

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11:45 – Benefits of having a distributed team

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  • Experience of different people in different cultures

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12:35 – Tools

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  • Skype
  • Pivotal Tracker
  • Need something that provides voice, email communication all-in-one

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13:05 – Advice for future remote workers

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  • Maintaining communication is key

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13:35 – Wrap up

14:17 – End

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