Earlier this week, just before the US Thanksgiving holidays, we shipped Early Release #3 for my “Distributed” book-in-progress.

Early Release #3 (ER#3) adds two new chapters: Ch.1 remoties trends, Ch.2 the real cost of an office, and many tweaks/fixes to the previous Chapters. There are now a total of 9 chapters available (1,2,4,6,7,8,10,13,15) arranged into three sections. These chapters were the inspiration for recent presentations and blog posts here, here and here.)

ER#3 comes one month after ER#2. You can buy ER#3 by clicking here, or clicking on the thumbnail of the book cover. Anyone who already has ER#1 or ER#2 should get prompted with a free update to ER#3. (If you don’t please let me know!). And yes, you’ll get updated when ER#4 comes out next month.

Please let me know what you think of the book so far. Your feedback get to help shape/scope the book! Is there anything I should add/edit/change? Anything you found worked for you, as a “remotie” or person in a distributed team, which you wish you knew when you were starting? If you were going to setup a distributed team today, what would you like to know before you started?

Thank you to everyone who’s already sent me feedback/opinions/corrections – all changes that are making the book better. I’m merging changes/fixes as fast as I can – some days are fixup days, some days are new writing days. All great to see coming together. To make sure that any feedback doesn’t get lost or caught in spam filters, it’s best to email a special email address (feedback at oduinn dot com) although feedback via twitter and linkedin works also. Thanks again to everyone for their encouragement, proof-reading help and feedback so far.

Now, it’s time to get back to typing. ER#4 is coming soon!

John.