Question

We are presently working for a client who is new to working with distributed teams. We have teams spread across India and the UK.

Although we have decent project tracking tools (Mingle), would it be a good idea to the give the PM at the client access to our git hub repo. Would this be make it easier for them (see what the devs are working on and an insight into what the team has been developing).

I agree that noot all commit messages would make sense to them but would this be a good way to boost their confidence in what we are doing?
They already can check out our fortnightly releases on our QA and UA environments, but this still is behind dev by 5-6 days.

Also, is there any reporting for git hub which makes it easier for PM types to make sense of it all?

Thanks

Answer 1

I don’t think there’s any automated report that is a good substitute for a written or verbal run-down of what the team accomplished within a given period (day, week, whatever). If you want to provide commit messages along with your written or verbal report exclusively for corroboration, that would make more sense. There’s no easy way out of this though, sometimes you have to spend more time than you’d like on communication, but it pays off to do it right.