Podcast on Managing Distributed Agile Projects
Posted by Andy Singleton on Fri, Feb 06, 2009 @ 01:24 PM
This week I recorded a podcast (here) in which I ranted on the subject of managing distributed agile projects, the future of work in the cloud, and anything else that my friend Jon Udell thought would be useful for his Interviews with Innovator's podcast series.
The editor writes: Andy Singleton is an entrepreneur who has long studied and practiced the art of distributed software development. Influenced by the open source and agile movements, he has arrived at some startling conclusions about how to manage commercial projects. Among them: don't interview people, don't estimate schedules, and don't spend time in teleconferences. In this conversation with host Jon Udell he explains why not to do these things, and what to do instead.
Our product picked up a review at WebWorkerDaily, where they looked at applying Assembla to non-software project collaboration. It's interesting to read articles like this because you learn how many different angles and approaches there are to the basic issue of online team collaboration. We will read and learn.