Comment We do it between UK/Europe/US/Australia (Score 1) 370
I work for a small startup and our development and test teams are spread between UK, Europe, USA and Australia.
Apart from the odd hours we hold meetings, it is pretty cool. We don't have the sweatshop attitude to any of the team, regardless of where they live. Everyone is paid better than the going rate in their own country and everyone has the same input into design and project direction you would have were they all in the same office.
We made the choice of full telecommuting for all the teams so we could get the best people from anywhere and let them work when they are 'in the zone' rather than when the office is open.
We use a combination of SourceOffSite, Bugzilla, Netmeeting, ICQ and lots of email and telephone to keep it going.
...and don't flame me that our (unreleased) corporate product is 'censorware' - this one was designed by a bunch of slashdot reading geeks so satisfy the legal requirements of management without snooping on everything you do and stopping you reading your favourite sites.
Apart from the odd hours we hold meetings, it is pretty cool. We don't have the sweatshop attitude to any of the team, regardless of where they live. Everyone is paid better than the going rate in their own country and everyone has the same input into design and project direction you would have were they all in the same office.
We made the choice of full telecommuting for all the teams so we could get the best people from anywhere and let them work when they are 'in the zone' rather than when the office is open.
We use a combination of SourceOffSite, Bugzilla, Netmeeting, ICQ and lots of email and telephone to keep it going.
...and don't flame me that our (unreleased) corporate product is 'censorware' - this one was designed by a bunch of slashdot reading geeks so satisfy the legal requirements of management without snooping on everything you do and stopping you reading your favourite sites.
