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This is a great post and I agree with everything he's said. However, I know plenty of folks that are doing all these things but are still struggling to hire fo
by hkarthik 15y ago
This is a great post and I agree with everything he's said.
However, I know plenty of folks that are doing all these things but are still struggling to hire for the following reasons:
1) Not enough experienced local talent to attempt recruiting.
2) Not willing to train the available talent on their stack.
3) Not willing to hire remote developers to solve problems 1 and 2.
- aaronblohowiak 15y agoMost businesses won't/can't effectively use remote developers.
- JoeAltmaier 15y agoExplain? I've worked remotely for 20 years, and its working great. For startups, established companies, as a consulatant.
- mjwalshe 15y agotrue but <b>not</b>for a start up or a proper RAD/DSDM project - co located teams in the same building /room is the way to go
- aaronblohowiak 15y agoThat's fantastic! It is great to work remotely, but it takes a certain kind of attitude and culture to effectively leverage remote workers. My anecdotes suggest that there is a nearness bias -- "out of sight, out of mind" -- which often leads to the colocated team members to lapse in keeping remote team members abreast of decisions and changes. Purely virtual teams don't have this problem and can be extremely successful. I've also seen it work where the remote team members are given an isolated component to own.
- JoeAltmaier 15y agoWe currently use a collaboration tool that lets us talk spontaneously, share docs, and call out to legacy conf lines. Solves most of the nearness bias.