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25Jul2011
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Avdi Grimm
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Interviews, Podcast
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Podcast #30: Dan Menard of Macadamian

A discussion with Dan Menard of Macadamian, covering the importance of taking the time to build personal relationships; the advantages of having a team that's split across time zones, the practice of distributed code review, and much more!

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27Apr2011
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Author
Avdi Grimm
Category
Interviews, Podcast
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Podcast #29: John Hawkins of 9Seeds LLC

In this episode, an interview with John Hawkins, one of the founders of 9Seeds, a company that specializes in custom Wordpress development. The 9Seeds team is fully dispersed, with every team member working from home. We talked about how 9Seeds came to be a distributed company, and why John intends never to set foot in a brick-and-mortar office again.

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23Mar2011
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Author
Avdi Grimm
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Interviews, Podcast
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Podcast #28: Shane Pearlman of Shane & Peter

In this episode I talk to Shane Pearlman of Shane & Peter, a fully dispersed software consultancy. We talked about recruiting the right kinds of people for a distributed team, and how to stay connected as friends as well as coworkers.

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16Mar2011
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Avdi Grimm
Category
Interviews, Podcast
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Podcast #27: Susan Tenby & Jessica Dally of TechSoup

This podcast is a departure from the dispersed software development teams I usually cover. I interviewed Susan Tenby and Jessica Dally of TechSoup, a nonprofit focused on providing other nonprofits with the technology they need to better accomplish their missions. One way they assist nonprofits is in helping them to use Second Life, a massive on-line "virtual world", to collaborate and build community online.

I talked to Susan and Jessica about why TechSoup is a distributed organization, and why organizations are using Second Life to meet, network, and do their work. For someone who spends a lot of time doing remote collaboration, it was eye-opening for me to discover this whole new frontier of online interaction. After listening to this interview you may just be inspired to add a virtual world meeting space to your own remote collaboration tool box.

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08Mar2011
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Author
Avdi Grimm
Category
Interviews, Podcast
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Podcast #26: Sahil Parikh of DeskAway.com

In this episode I talked to Sahil Parikh of DeskAway.com, a web-based collaboration tool for distributed teams. This is another episode recovered from near-disastrous technical malfunction, and as a result all of my audio has been re-dubbed. Thankfully, Sahil's insights into he advantages of a dispersed team have been fully preserved.

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01Mar2011
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Avdi Grimm
Category
Interviews, Podcast
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Podcast #25: Jared Goralnick of AwayFind.com

The conventional wisdom says that while some distributed teams might work, it's not possible to have a geographically dispersed software startup. With AwayFind.com, Jared Goralnick is challenging that wisdom. I talked to him about time management, establishing rapport in a distributed teams, and the advantages of remote workers for a startup,

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15Feb2011
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Author
Avdi Grimm
Category
Interviews, Podcast
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Podcast #24: Derek Wade

In this episode, a conversation with Derek Wade, a collaboration expert and Team Coach at Kumido Adaptive Systems. We talk about building "high-gravity" distributed teams, work-scapes, and the benefits of simple, free-form tools for collaboration.

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08Feb2011
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Avdi Grimm
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Interviews, Podcast
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Podcast #23: Interview with Rob Dempsey of LifeOfTheFreelancer.com (Part 2 of 2)

Part two of a conversation between Rob Dempsey of LifeOfTheFreelancer.com and myself. In this part we dig into the intersection of freelancing and distributed teams: the phenomenon of ad-hoc teams composed of independent consultants who come together to work on a specific project. If you're a freelancer trying to figure out how you can take on bigger jobs, you need to check out this episode.

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01Feb2011
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Avdi Grimm
Category
Interviews, Podcast
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Podcast #22: Rob Dempsey of LifeOfTheFreelancer.com (Part 1 of 2)

Back in action after the holiday lull, and starting off the year right with part one of a mutual interview between Rob Dempsey and I. Rob runs LifeOfTheFreelancer.com, where he has interviewed over a hundred freelancers in order to find out what makes for a successful freelancing career. As someone who has worked with distributed software teams as well as spoken to numerous remote workers, Rob has some great insights into how to make dispersed teams work.

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07Dec2010
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Author
Avdi Grimm
Category
Interviews, Podcast
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Wide Teams Podcast #21: Interview with Tony Amoyal

Can you work remotely from a snowboarding vacation in Montana? Software developer Tony Amoyal says "why not?". In this episode, he and I discuss the tradeoffs involved in being part of a software team while staying mobile.

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