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Daily scrum meeting for remote teams

March 1st, 2010 Petros 2 comments

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.

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Blog Action Day: Working remotely helps pollute less

October 15th, 2009 Petros No comments

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.

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Using Jing while working remotely

June 24th, 2009 Petros No comments

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!

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How to avoid alienation while working remotely

June 23rd, 2009 Petros 2 comments

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.

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Working remotely

June 22nd, 2009 Petros 4 comments

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.

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