I don't like telephone conferences, no matter if initiated with computer software or not.
voice quality is bad (I'm pretty sure it was much better 20 years ago)
there's a delay that is just long enough that the one talking last starts to repeat when someone else starts to answer
some people activate hands-free, which is often accompanied by an echo, which makes them and everybody else even harder to understand
the ones working in their home office or an open space office "entertain" everybody with their background noise
another great feature of some telephones is to play music in the conference when muting or calling someone else on a 2nd line (well, at least you don't make this mistake more than one or two times)
But Skype/Hangout/... are okay for pair programming and when you want someone else to take a look at a problem on your computer (screen sharing).
I'm with you. A proper setup is mandatory. That's why we use Skype with a headset and a webcam. Everyone tries to provide a quiet space so that nobody gets annoyed and if anything is disturbing (like a ringing phone, cracking headsets, loud background, etc) we simply tell each other and the problem gets solved almost always immediately.
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I don't like telephone conferences, no matter if initiated with computer software or not.
But Skype/Hangout/... are okay for pair programming and when you want someone else to take a look at a problem on your computer (screen sharing).
I'm with you. A proper setup is mandatory. That's why we use Skype with a headset and a webcam. Everyone tries to provide a quiet space so that nobody gets annoyed and if anything is disturbing (like a ringing phone, cracking headsets, loud background, etc) we simply tell each other and the problem gets solved almost always immediately.