Are you a remote manager with a remote team? If so, do you sometimes get concerned about your level of visibility into the daily activities of your team? Do you wonder if you are providing the right level of input or are too far removed? I was asked about this recently while attending our yearly [...]
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One thing that makes communities so interesting is their diversity, which can be characterized by how the community structures itself. Compare openoffice.org vs. tigris.org, for example. While both are focused on building open source applications, they differ in how community efforts are organized. Where tigris.org is organized by tool type (scm, issuetrack, requirements), openoffice.org is [...]
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Why do some people choose to communicate and participate openly, while others keep their heads down and mind their own business? Over 35 years ago, we were introduced to a quirky character in the sitcom, "Welcome Back, Kotter". His name was Arnold Horshack. What did Horshack know about the Internet…Linux….Distributed development…Cloud computing? Nothing, of course [...]
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