Kuo, Jimmy wrote:
>I don't see why you people think it's so far-fetched.
>
>Most of AVERT's locations worldwide are home offices. We have an actual
>office that we're assigned. But, we mostly work from home offices.
>
Very specific development models work well disconnected & distributed.
Factors that tend to make it work better:
* everyone is a senior developer, who doesn't need a lot of mentoring
* tasks are easily decomposable
* fairly unique to the linux kernel: you have so much free
development labor that you can afford to reject most of the work
done, and just cherry pick the results
Factors that make it not work well:
* trying to do something unknown, requiring a lot of discussion
* a lot of junior developers who need a lot of managing
* boring work that people only do for the pay check
* progress metrics that are subjective and difficult to measure
So you can take a top quality team and distribute it and still expect to
succeed. But you cannot recruit some average quality staff to do some
dull work and let them all telecommute and expect to succeed.
All IMHO. Your milage may vary. If it does vary, speak up: I'd like to
know when I can believe that someone proposing to telecommute a job can
be trusted to do it.
Crispin
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