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2 total messages Started by Gary Scott Thu, 03 Jan 1991 18:28
info/experiences on long-distance telecommuting wanted
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Author: Gary Scott
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 1991 18:28
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Please excuse the bandwidth if you feel that this posting is in your
newsgroup inappropriately. I am just trying to get as wide a sampling as
possible. Thank you for your patience.



I am looking for information or experiences from people that have either
consulted with companies geographically distant from your place of residence
or preferably if you have worked for a company that was geographically
distant from your residence.

In particular I would like to get information on the following topics:

1) How did you communicate with your co-workers (phone, modem, fax, federal
express)?

2) What type of product did you work on (please be as specific as possible
without revealing any confidential info)?

3) How many people where on the development team?

4) Were other members of the devloment team also geographicaly seperated?

5) Do you feel that the geographical seperation was positive, negative or
neutral?

6) What was your specific involvement in the project?

7) How was configuration management handled? What about prototype support?

8) How was your compensation handled (where you an employee with normal
benefits, contractor paying own benefits, etc.)?

9) How often was it necessary to get together for face-to-face meetings?
Any other information that you feel would be of interest or importance is
definitely welcome.

My reasons for requesting this information is twofold: First, I am looking
to see if there is enough interest/information in this method of product
development to publish an article on. Secondly, I am currently consulting
with an overseas company in this vary fashion. We are currently looking to
expand in the U.S. via telecommuting thus allowing the use of people
interested in working on our project but unable to relocate.

Thank you for your response.

Gary L. Scott

Please forward your response via e-mail. If there is enough interest/info I
will summarize and post to misc.jobs.misc.

--- This is not an offer of employemnt or a posting of potential employment
opportunities ---
-- 
Gary L. Scott,  Decision Technology, Beaverton, OR (503) 642-4196
"Strategic Business Applications"    garys@techbook.com (subscription unix)
Any opinion expressed are mine and do not reflect the opinion of anyone
including myself!!!
Re: info/experiences on long-distance telecommuting wanted
#2
Author: Dr Dr
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 1991 03:22
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In article <1991Jan3.182856.19546@techbook.com> garys@techbook.com (Gary
Scott) writes:
 [a variety of questions re "telecommuting" & long-distance consulting]

I too would be interested in answers to the questions raised, as would
(probably) many others who've previously queried this group re "work at home"
and related topics.  I'd like to encourage a net discussion rather
than email response to the original poster, if that doesn't horn in too
much (and if it does, my apologies for an unintended netiquette breach).
Thanks!

--

 Michael Price, MD
"I wonder, therefore I might be." -- Baron of Greymatter
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