2 White Boards and a Edirol

I’ve been here working with one of my partners on our secret project. It’s been really interesting getting to work in person after collaborating online for about a month now on various things.

I don’t care what anyone says, technology just can’t replace good, old-fashioned face-to-face work (well not yet at least). We’re getting so much more done now that we can quickly pass through things that take hours to type out.

The best tool to have, 2 whiteboards and an Edirol. We’ve been using two whiteboards in the meeting room. It’s great to have the main board as your focal area - the main discussion is there. Of course, then you need to figure some other nugget out so you can jump to the second board to do that.

Once we’re done, we snap some pictures of them and are posting them up to Basecamp for the other developers to see and comment on. It’s really powerful to work this way.

In addition, I’ve got my Ediorol R-1 sitting on the table as well. It’s got great microphones and we’re getting the entire conversation recorded as well so you can follow along based on the audio and photos.

The last tool - a stack of index cards. We’re getting down to using these today. some of them are for sketches. However, our main goal is to define larger tasks and then to break them into smaller tasks - giving us the opportunity to tear up those old ones when they’re done.

At the end of the day, we’ll map those cards into To-Do items in Basecamp, assign them to folks, and be on our way.

It’s almost scary that it’s actually fun!