Hmm… I remember the bad old days and maybe some of you are still living tlhem, getting up early or staying late to call some foreign country.. Do you remember how difficult it was to do virtual offsite team communication and paying the big bucks for trips to get people onsite to really get in sync?\u00a0 Now of course besides project blogs and wikis there is the glory of real time communication in a virtual room.\u00a0 I’m talking about the IRC chatroom channels.\u00a0 Now I can’t imagine trying to hold a virtual team together without one of these.\u00a0 Set your project channel up on the IRC and communicate from home or work, have a bot maintain and monitor it 24 hours round if you like and log all conversations for an easy record for folks who don’t want to scroll back.\u00a0 Real time conversations rule again! Simply clip a peice of code to a scratchpad site for troubleshooting code or diagrams that the whole team can examine.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Not to mention if you have some weird\u00a0 problem on just about any technical application on the planet you can often find an IRC channel and chat with the original authors or gurus on the subject who hang out there. \u00a0\u00a0 Wonder when some companies will finally figure out what they are missing by not using this tool yet.\u00a0 Time to follow the paths blazed by the open source software teams once again and meet experts from all around the planet not to mention have your own invite only project channel there.\u00a0 Of course your spelling will morph into some strange internet speak acronyms but that simply can’t be helped.\u00a0 Of course there are limitations that only face to face can solve best, however, this is certainly the next best thing and typically is way, way better than the old\u00a0 bleary weary early morning phone calls without much of the team present that haunted project managers.\u00a0 Chat on!<\/p>\n
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