I'm the CTO of 17hats. The entire engineering team works remotely. It's not as challenging as you seem to suggest. Right now is the best time ever to be remote.
Excellent tools like Slack and Speak really help comms. We pair program very often by sshing into a tmux session which makes any lag close to nil. We use Trello for sprints. And Invision for product work. It's extremely efficient.
We have our usual retrospectives and watercooler talk and it feels natural.
Every 6 months we get together for fun.
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The advantages of being remote far outweigh the disadvantages. Rather than listing all the advantages. What are the disadvantages?
Excellent tools like Slack and Speak really help comms. We pair program very often by sshing into a tmux session which makes any lag close to nil. We use Trello for sprints. And Invision for product work. It's extremely efficient.
We have our usual retrospectives and watercooler talk and it feels natural.
Every 6 months we get together for fun.
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The advantages of being remote far outweigh the disadvantages. Rather than listing all the advantages. What are the disadvantages?
..I'm thinking.