Tools for geographically dispersed development teams
No offense to Phil Haack , but his timing might be a bit off. With the book not being published until November it probably cannot be the summer's must read book - but it definitely will be the Must Read Book of the holiday season! In fact, at over 1000 pages, you might need the entire holiday break to get through it all! Following the announcements by the authors, James Avery and Jim Holmes , and other interested parties, I have to admit that I can't wait to get my mitts on Windows Developer Power...
No, I'm not going to discuss buying your next home (well, maybe a little bit), but instead I want to write a bit about selecting a spot for your home office. While your home office space is not technically a tool, it might be considered the best (or weakest) tool in your bag. You might not have put any thought into it yet, but the location (or lack of location) of your home office can have a considerable effect on your productivity. When planning for the location of your home office here are several...
Reading of telligenti Ken Robertson's planned series of posts about working remotely reminded me that I had planned of putting together a list of essential tools for remote development teams. Actually, the list was planned to be a small portion of a larger project, but for the sake of avoiding any more procrastination... In this series I plan to discuss some of the tools that I have found to be essential for geographically dispersed teams from the obvious to the not-so-obvious, like email and instant...