In his book Where in the world is my team, Terence Brake outlines the three challenges that global and virtual teams face. There is Isolation (reduced contacts and difficulty of trust building can easily make you feel alone and lose motivation), Fragmentation (unclear purpose and fuzzy responsabilities fragment your effort …
Last week I started a new job, working for Rackspace Hosting as the Release Manager for the Openstack project. I'm still very much working from home on open source software, so that part doesn't change. However, there are some subtle differences.
First of all, Openstack is what we call an …
Jono posted recently the slidedeck for his famous 12 stages of burnout presentation. I highly recommend this presentation, especially to technical teams working from home.
I think we are especially vulnerable to burnout, with limited social interactions and sporadic discussions with our peers and managers. It's quite easy to fall …