Telecommuting

[Adrian Howard]

On 9 Dec 2011, at 19:09, Zbigniew Łukasiak wrote:

> Recently I was surprised by the following (from a talk by Greg Wilson):
> 
> Physical distance doesn’t affect post-release fault rates but Distance
> in the organisational chart does.
> 
> Nagappan et all (2007) and Bird et al (2009)
> 
> Based on all the data from building Windows Vista. An enormous volume of data.
> 
> Searched for indicators of post release defect.
> 
> This goes against claims for the need for co-location.
> 
> Different managers with different goals has more impact than different
> continents.
> 
> 
> copied from a transcript:
> http://softwareflow.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/greg-wilsons-what-we-actually-know-about-software-development/

Oh. That's interesting. Thanks! I'll have to track that down. 

Adrian