End the Office? Students Want Right to Work From Home

Re:End the Office? Students Want Right to Work From Home by poink on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @11:25AM (#3216100)

There are ways around this. You can do pair programming with screen sharing and VOIP, for example. As a company/manager/lead you might have to enforce good practice, but that's also true in the office.

(The less your team needs to worry about this stuff, the more likely they are to be successful no matter where you put them.)

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Re:End the Office? Students Want Right to Work From Home by fennecfoxen on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @12:05PM (#3216305)

I did pair programming with screen sharing and VOIP at my last job: we had one guy who was remote (he moved to the east coast because his wife got a snazzy job in animation, and we didn't feel like letting him go). We tried all the tricks. It works, but it's not like the real thing, and it's a lot more obnoxious and stressful for both parties, even when there aren't technical difficulties. I'd say: don't do it regularly unless you have to.

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Re:End the Office? Students Want Right to Work From Home by lawnchair_larry on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @12:12PM (#3216336)

Better yet, don't do pair programming it all. People still do that?

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Re:End the Office? Students Want Right to Work From Home by fennecfoxen on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @12:24PM (#3216389)

Pair programming is the only reason that team's still going, after what management's done to it, with the employee turnover it's gone through amidst idiotic hiring constraints. But even before that, it was doing pretty well.

How about you run your team the way that works for you, and if someone else does pair programming and it works for them, maybe it's okay? :)

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