Remote development work (Score 1)

I have hands-on experience leading remote development work. I have to say that it is definitely not a walk in the park. 30%-%40 of my time was dedicated to communication .... back and forth between all the offices involved. Its tough work and is only successful when you have the buy in and effort from everyone. i was wokring 16 hour days just to make sure things ran smoothly .... can't do that kind of effort for too long. THings worked out ok in the end.

I have also seen the flip side, where the product/system developed outside the US completely sucked. I don't lay the blame entirely on the company that did the work. Anyone with half a brain could have identified and corrected the issues before the project came to a standstill, but the folks back here in America didn't have the inclination to do it. You snooze, you lose.