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These are largely solved issues. Standups can be done over a web chat, and may actually be even better with todays screen sharing capabilities, where you can ac

These are largely solved issues. Standups can be done over a web chat, and may actually be even better with todays screen sharing capabilities, where you can actually SHOW everyone what you are working on. Tools like tmux have had the remote pairing issue solved as well. Face to face is good here and there, but I see no reason why agile cannot be practiced just as effectively remotely.

hosh 13y ago
Or Hangout / Skype / GTM for standup. We have standups and occasional pairing done remotely (via tmux/wemux). We've been doing this for at least a year and a half now. Seems like DHH is late to the party. What he says are currently competitive advantages for the companies that already practice it. But I suppose, the bulk of workplaces still have yet to try this out.
kevinmchugh 13y ago
I believe this is what he means when he says "the hacks that makes that setup more workable". Your technological solutions assume synchronous work, which limits the pool of employable people to those with similar preferred workdays, where DHH would ostensibly like to work with people around the world.
- hackula1 13y ago
  Email or Voxer work for async communication.
  - rahoulb 13y ago
    I actually find 37s' Campfire works for both async and synchronous communication. It's obviously a chat-room for immediate talking, but the highlighting and ease of scrollback (without having to have irssi or similar running constantly) mean you can easily catch up and pick out messages left for you when you were offline. Which makes me think the post is just about the upcoming book.
- senko 13y ago
  Not all communication can be async, for example for brainstorming or getting a complicated point across the instant feedback is very important. As an example (and to toot my own horn), my shared whiteboard tool http://awwapp.com/ http://awwapp.com/ is often used by remote-working teams to quickly sketch something. Users could just as easily fire up a drawing program and email the picture, but having the instant feedback makes all the difference.

hosh 13y ago

Or Hangout / Skype / GTM for standup. We have standups and occasional pairing done remotely (via tmux/wemux). We've been doing this for at least a year and a half now. Seems like DHH is late to the party. What he says are currently competitive advantages for the companies that already practice it. But I suppose, the bulk of workplaces still have yet to try this out.

kevinmchugh 13y ago

I believe this is what he means when he says "the hacks that makes that setup more workable". Your technological solutions assume synchronous work, which limits the pool of employable people to those with similar preferred workdays, where DHH would ostensibly like to work with people around the world.

hackula1 13y ago
Email or Voxer work for async communication.
- rahoulb 13y ago
  I actually find 37s' Campfire works for both async and synchronous communication. It's obviously a chat-room for immediate talking, but the highlighting and ease of scrollback (without having to have irssi or similar running constantly) mean you can easily catch up and pick out messages left for you when you were offline. Which makes me think the post is just about the upcoming book.
senko 13y ago
Not all communication can be async, for example for brainstorming or getting a complicated point across the instant feedback is very important. As an example (and to toot my own horn), my shared whiteboard tool http://awwapp.com/ http://awwapp.com/ is often used by remote-working teams to quickly sketch something. Users could just as easily fire up a drawing program and email the picture, but having the instant feedback makes all the difference.