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By: Danno

Danno — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 03:06:17 +0000

As far as daily communication between our young team goes … nothing has beaten Ventrilo thus far.

We use e-mail and IMs where need be but Ventrilo (although not a very elegant application) has facilitated a quick, “push-to-talk” voice communication that has redefined the way we operate.

Comes in both Mac and PC flavors for the free client and is very inexpensive to host.

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By: James Franklin

James Franklin — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 18:06:48 +0000

At pixeco we’ve been using http://www.protopage.com. I set up a main account and then a series of their notepads, one each in fact. We can then each update what we need to do and have done. Sort of like a global view of everyones to-do list. Been using it for about a year now and it works brilliantly.

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By: alexander

alexander — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:16:37 +0000

I like your suggestion as a log to know what everybody in the team is doing, but frankly I see it exagerated to use it in a small business for chatting. For this, here in Italy, we’re used to have human touch: we meet normaly in front of the coffee machine or in the sun right outside the door if someone wants to smoke. This solutions have also the advantage that you make some steps and relaxe your eyes.

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By: Thayer Driver

Thayer Driver — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 10:00:27 +0000

We’re trying this out starting from today, really top tip, thanks for the post. Will let you know how we get on!

By: Matt Browne

Matt Browne — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:20:16 +0000

Our campfire room died after about 3 months. Even with cool apps like Pyro that integrate it tighter in OS X, it still seems like more trouble than iChat or Twitter.
One thing I like about chatting in general is scheduling mini meetings. Checking in with people to see if they are available for a short conversation. This eliminated a lot of Voicemail tag.

By: syi5

syi5 — Fri, 25 May 2007 21:12:47 +0000

wow.. a lot of negativity!

By: Ryan Carson

Ryan Carson — Tue, 22 May 2007 12:42:58 +0000

How about something new, Ryan?

Bryan, you’re assuming everyone is reading Signal Vs Noise everyday.

By: B

Tue, 22 May 2007 11:26:50 +0000

37signals already shared this months ago. How about something new, Ryan?

By: mdy

mdy — Mon, 21 May 2007 15:55:39 +0000

This entry reminds me of a post I just read earlier about using Twitter to manage an IT Support organization.

See http://dwarfurl.com/667dc

The idea is similar — use technology to facilitate coordination. One advantage with Twitter — you don’t need to be at a PC with a ‘net connection to update your status.

By: Curt Sampson

Curt Sampson — Mon, 21 May 2007 13:39:10 +0000

The “‘come out’ of whatever you’re doing…it takes a good 3-5 minutes to get back into what you were previously doing” issue is quite nicely fixed by pair programming: whoever in the pair can best deal with the issue deals with it, while the other guy stays “in the groove,” and then the person who dealt with the issue can get straight back in.

Personally, I find chat rooms far slower for communication; something I can deal with in a couple of minutes face to face can take five or ten minutes in a text chat, and in the meantime my productivity is lowered because I have to switch back and forth between whatever I’m doing and chat for a much longer period of time (or just abandon for a longer period of time whatever I was doing, and instead wait around for someone to type something).

By: Stuart Grimshaw

Stuart Grimshaw — Mon, 21 May 2007 12:21:07 +0000

Be careful though, I used to work at a company that used something similar to this but they also mixed in an awful lot of micromanagement.

By: Tamlyn Rhodes

Tamlyn Rhodes — Mon, 21 May 2007 10:10:48 +0000

We do a similar thing with our internal forums. Everyone posts an SOD (start of day) and an EOD (end of day) usually with one thread per team. We’re a fairly big company mostly in the same building and it seems to work well.

By: Matt Carey

Matt Carey — Mon, 21 May 2007 08:26:52 +0000

perhaps this works because you are distributed around the world? i like the idea, especially as it will stop me micro-managing my staff! but i’m wondering how it would work when we all sit in a room together — it removes the art of conversation!

By: Bogdan

Bogdan — Sun, 20 May 2007 08:59:54 +0000

SCRUM over the internet. What a great idea.

By: Stefson

Stefson — Sun, 20 May 2007 08:22:44 +0000

Well, if it’s for a small team, sounds more like an extra ‘fun’ feature to me. Can’t imagine this working for a big team.

Take some screenshots of some funny stuff happening in your chatbox Ryan :).

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By: jankoM

jankoM — Sat, 19 May 2007 22:39:08 +0000

Sounds very simple but like it would actually work… I will propose this to the ones I work with.. thanks..

By: Ryan Carson

Ryan Carson — Sat, 19 May 2007 17:54:55 +0000

@Stefson – We’re up to nine people now, spread between Bath, San Francisco and Russia

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 19 May 2007 17:28:34 +0000

Even with them being in Utah and me in Alabama, I didn’t speak on the phone with the dev team a single time when building a recent project. Chat is so much faster (no lame “how was your weekend” conversations needed), more useful (send attachments and links), and more productive (ask a quick question and keep working while you wait for a reply). And it gives you time to think about your answer before answering.

If, however, we were in the same office, I’m sure it would have helped to have a few face to face conversations. And, although awesome, there is a draw back to chat or email. Sarcasm doesn’t come through very well. It’s always lame to end a joke with a forced, “haha” as a clue that you were kidding.

By: Stefson

Stefson — Sat, 19 May 2007 15:24:00 +0000

–Any of you who are managers will know that you need to keep up on how your team is doing and what theyâ€™re doing. At the same time, itâ€™s never helpful to micro-manage and constantly bug your team.–

I thought there was only like 5 people in carson systems? Then why in earth would you need a chat box to stay on top of things. To constantly see what your employees are doing and working on? Personally, I would find that annoying, but I guess that’s just me.

By: Jacob Wyke

Jacob Wyke — Sat, 19 May 2007 15:08:57 +0000

What a great idea…will have to start implementing it next week. Will be interesting to look back over the past few months and be able to see exactly what was done each day/week.

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[...] In/out board for virtual teams — Use a chat room so team members can say when they’re “in” and what they’re working on. Ryan Carson’s team uses their chat room for daily check-ins, weekly check-ins, and virtual over-the-cube conversations. [Carsonified] [...]