While your team remains small, focus entirely on issue tracking and documentation for communication: for example, set up Trac, and make sure everything is written up as a ticket and/or a wiki page. That way, work items are easily assigned to people, and at a glance anyone can see what others are doing without having to stop and ask them.
Instill a culture of checking for open items and picking them up. Your teammates should see new issues on the page and seek to assign them properly. (After all, everyone can see if one guy has 100 items and another has 2, so it'll distribute itself naturally.)
Similarly, the rate of success on tickets will tell you if your team is really big enough.
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While your team remains small, focus entirely on issue tracking and documentation for communication: for example, set up Trac, and make sure everything is written up as a ticket and/or a wiki page. That way, work items are easily assigned to people, and at a glance anyone can see what others are doing without having to stop and ask them.
Instill a culture of checking for open items and picking them up. Your teammates should see new issues on the page and seek to assign them properly. (After all, everyone can see if one guy has 100 items and another has 2, so it'll distribute itself naturally.)
Similarly, the rate of success on tickets will tell you if your team is really big enough.
Thanks, good feedback.