Hello Cara: Absolutely. If nothing else working in and around the open source community it has taught me the value of good team work. How to have a team from anywhere of one to a hundred working on the same project, and the reason why things get done in the open source world comes down to good tools, good documentation, and everyone coming together to do what needs done. Even better none of this costs the developers anything but a little time.
If there is a bug there are tools like Bugzilla which can track bugs, and when a bug gets fixed whoever made the correction can update the Bugzilla report to reflect as being fixed in version x.x. That way the rest of the members of the team can focus on other aspects of the project. Having a repository where sounds, software, etc are stored such as CVS, Subversion, or Git helps with version control. Every member of the team can checkout the source, help debug it, add additional code, test, etc which helps a team function as a team regardless if they are in a dozen different countries and a dozen different time zones. Everyone simply has access to everything else as needed. Above all a team needs good team leadership. If Joe won't be able to work on coding game x for the next two weeks but Bill has the time the team lead should reassign Joe's portion of the work to Bill during that period that way it gets done without delays. I think, however, with this group Shaun is talking about they have no experience working with a team and they are not properly assigning or reassigning jobs as necessary. They aren't keeping up to date action reports so everyone is aware of who is doing what, and they aren't using any of the free tools out there that makes team development possible. In short, they need to learn how to work together as a team else they are doing things backwards from the get-go. Cheers! On 12/12/13, Cara Quinn <[email protected]> wrote: > Thomas, > > Spot on! > > It's really important for every team member to have access to a copy of the > action statements for the team. Thusly, it's important to generate good > clear action statements for the team members to act upon. > > Anyway, in short, I agree with you. > > Smiles, > > Cara :) > --- > iOS design and development - LookTel.com > --- > View my Online Portfolio at: > > http://www.onemodelplace.com/CaraQuinn > > Follow me on Twitter! > > https://twitter.com/ModelCara > --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
