By Ben | Published:
March 18, 2009
If you are working with a distributed team, especially if that team is offshore, you should implement an “exchange program” to bring remote people together. The phone, email, instant messenger, and other similar tools can help with collaboration but they don’t have a fraction of the power of face-to-face communication.
Do you work with people in [...]
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By Ben | Published:
December 10, 2007
From The Tao Of Programming…
A manager went to the master programmer and showed him the requirements document for a new application. The manager asked the master: “How long will it take to design this system if I assign five programmers to it?’”
“It will take one year,’” said the master promptly.
“But we need this system immediately [...]
By Ben | Published:
August 21, 2007
An interesting facilitation technique that I’ve learned to frequently rely on is silence. The first time I ran across the technique was in a CSM course taught by Hubert Smits and Tamara Sulaiman. One of the exercises that we explored was Silent Grouping. The exercise was great and worked very well in the context of [...]
By Ben | Published:
April 7, 2007
I sat down to catch up on a little reading this weekend and have been making my way through The Wisdom Of Teams. This is a very interesting book about the observations of various types and levels of teams, the way teams perform, and the characteristics of each respective type.
I’ve always viewed teams as teams [...]
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By Ben | Published:
April 1, 2007
There is a really interesting article here that looks at how various colonies and groups self-manage. This article has some interesting ramifications to thinking about how we communicate as humans and how we communicate in different team environments. There are also some interesting thoughts floating around in mind about how some of the tools that I [...]
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