Distributed Effort... Again...

We are again as a team distributed. Steve in Palo Alto, Mike in Toronto and me in Exeter. The big difference from a few months ago is that Steve in full-time, Mike is wrapping up in Toronto and we all are now part of a very aggressive program with some pretty strong encouragement to release a public beta in the next couple months. And we have lost a bit of time to the growing pains that come from changing working styles again. I don't have Steve beside me - which means we aren't pushing each other forward in the same way, we can't talk and whiteboard, and our schedules diverge. Thankfully we have gotten pretty good at this! We have a big support network of tools, lots of communication expectations, and we are all self-starters capable of working on our own. I guess I just miss working next to Steve. I liked being in the same head-space as him. and I was looking forward to having Mike join us. All together and working - like some bad Asian fusion of super powers comic book thing. It was gonna be prefect, and it will be, just a little longer coming. As for everything else, we are getting back into the grove. Steve and I have been doing a decent job of Skype + Jira collaboration. And we are even set to do some remote pairing one of these days. So work really is as good as can be right now!