Want to make your geographically distributed agile projects more effective? Join Johanna Rothman and Shane Hastie for this webinar where they will discuss their workshop, Working Effectively In Geographically Distributed Agile Project Teams. We’ll address a few of the common problems of geographically distributed agile teams, and then open it up for your questions.

Even if you can’t make the webinar, please sign up so I can tell you about the recording.

There’s still time to sign up for the workshop in Tel Aviv next week.

If you’re like me, you work with people all over the world, never mind all over the country. I generally ask, “When is a good time to call?” before I call someone. However, some people don’t remember to ask. Or, they may remember to ask, but then forget to think about the time when they pick up the phone.

This morning, I was abruptly awoken when someone called me at 5am local time. It was 8am their time.

They were right to call. We could not have handled the problem over email. However, they still had to wait until my brain caught up with my voice. Thank goodness we don’t have video phones.

The phone has substantive bandwidth to discuss complex problems. So use it. Just remember to ask what time is good to call :-)