We are using instant messaging a lot (IM). Our team is working remotely and IM helps us communicate. I have realized that communicating using IM can be rather difficult sometimes. One of the reasons is the lack of visual contact. The two (or more) chatting parties cannot show their body language.
As a remote team with dispersed team members, we need to find ways to stay connected, motivated and committed. We thought of borrowing something from Scrum and try it out. It’s the Daily Scrum Meeting or Daily Stand Up and we have decided to try it for 30 days and see if we like it or not.
If you follow me, you know by now that me and my team (4 people in total) started working remotely. I was wondering what to write for Blog Action Day. I decided it would be cool if I could calculate some numbers that showed how we affect our environment in a positive way.
One of the tools I really appreciate because it helps me enhance my communication is Jing. Jing has a free edition that supports both screen captures with annotations and video captures with voice!
In my previous post, I mention that we started working remotely in order to improve our productivity. I chose “remote work” because I believe it solves some issues. Most of the times, however, when you try to solve a bunch of problems, you may create a bunch of new ones. In the end you may not gain anything despite the effort.
It all started 6 months ago. I was pressed by management to improve our team’s productivity. We are a team of 4 programmers with me as a leader. I identified some factors that in my opinion influenced our productivity and I reckoned working remotely could eliminate them. As a result we could increase our productivity.
I have just read a job post in some job site and among other requirements, they are asking for a “multitasking” person.
Once upon a time, there was this newly hired software development team leader, named Joe, who wanted to organize the software development department of a company. He told the bosses they should really choose and buy a project management/issue tracking tool. The bosses were OK with that and let Joe buy that tool.
Initially, I said I was going to create 7 free services that will run on the Internet. Now, I am changing my initial plans. Maybe some of my 7 deeds will be free services, but not all of them.
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