So since a lot of us work from our home/base location on the Friday and every day we have a 15 minute progress meeting to highlight what we have been doing and any issues we decided to use GIMS (Group Instant Messaging Service, essentially a work MSN).
So this includes a 9 people conversation, obviously this can pose issues and can get very 'messy' so we had a chair who posed 3 questions:
1) What work did you do yesterday?
2) What are you working on today?
3) Any blockers.
Each person was asked in turn, type the answer, move onto the next person.
We had intended to broadcast the board via webcam (the locals in the office would have done this) but unfortunately our work's network has blocked the webcam functionality which is a shame.
The meeting worked pretty well albeit a techy glitch at the beginning and if we can use VOIP and webcams it will be even better. I think using this approach today and hence forth on Friday's will be a good way of demonstrating that we can do this over a distributed environment (especially if we are to send work offshore).
The only disadvantages are if there are technical problems, the fact that we cannot at the moment use webcams and the meeting takes longer than 15 minutes as people are typing. Other than that it has worked pretty well as a pilot.
Since the webcam option is blocked, I have requested that the local guys take a pic of the board and the burn down chart and send it across to us so we can see the progress based on today's meeting.
It's been a lot better than I had anticipated.
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