Comments on: How to successfully work in a distributed team http://programmers.blogoverflow.com/2012/09/how-to-successfully-work-in-a-distributed-team/ Software Engineering Stack Exchange Community Blog Thu, 12 Jan 2017 11:44:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.6 By: Jim G. http://programmers.blogoverflow.com/2012/09/how-to-successfully-work-in-a-distributed-team/#comment-2516 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 19:29:43 +0000 http://programmers.blogoverflow.com/?p=531#comment-2516 Great point.

]]> By: Hoàng Long http://programmers.blogoverflow.com/2012/09/how-to-successfully-work-in-a-distributed-team/#comment-1490 Sat, 29 Sep 2012 08:12:57 +0000 http://programmers.blogoverflow.com/?p=531#comment-1490 Thanks for your informative sharing. I will apply your idea in near future. Though I’m not sure about GNU Screen session… if you need to do a “webinar”, why not using teamviewer + skype?

]]> By: Hoàng Long http://programmers.blogoverflow.com/2012/09/how-to-successfully-work-in-a-distributed-team/#comment-1488 Sat, 29 Sep 2012 08:05:05 +0000 http://programmers.blogoverflow.com/?p=531#comment-1488 Good point, c69. We are meeting that challenge for now. We are doing fine with milestone before… and just 6 months without any milestones “seems” to slow things down quite a bit.

The hard part is that when I propose the “milestone” idea, it is turned down because “we are never getting ‘done’ with the project”. Our customer don’t want milestones stuff as well, so that we currently don’t apply it.

]]> By: Nikhil http://programmers.blogoverflow.com/2012/09/how-to-successfully-work-in-a-distributed-team/#comment-1351 Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:30:42 +0000 http://programmers.blogoverflow.com/?p=531#comment-1351 Nice article – I would like to point out though there are some ways to improve your experience in distributed teams. I wrote a blog post about this awhile back when I was working in a distributed team – http://technikhil.wordpress.com/2012/02/20/distributed-development/ The TL;DR of the post is as follows – Try to maximise the amount of overlap between the working time of the different members of the distributed team. The bigger the overlap the more productive the team… Another important one is making sure you set aside time to regularly travel and meet up, exclusively working distributed makes it harder to develop the trust that you need to make distributed development work. Finally, there are several tools available out there that you can leverage to improve the distributed development experience. Indeed nowadays you can even do distributed pairing with a simple setup like a GNU Screen session with Vim or Emacs for example.

]]> By: c69 http://programmers.blogoverflow.com/2012/09/how-to-successfully-work-in-a-distributed-team/#comment-1330 Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:21:56 +0000 http://programmers.blogoverflow.com/?p=531#comment-1330 Good points, though there is one thing very important to distributed teams – a taste of success. Its hard to just work for months (i’d even dare to say – weeks) without seeing a measurable progress.

So setting frequent milestones, or doing some kind of Agile with small stories is a preferred tactics for distributed team, imho.

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