[andrewbadera]

As someone who does and has worked on enterprise-grade software, and someone who now helps client teams facilitate development, both in-person, remote on-shore, and remote off-shore, I can confidently state: it all comes down to communication, and a lack of communication not only dooms telecommuting, but it's a strong indicator of longer term failure in the parent company.

If ideas, thoughts and facts cannot be clearly captured and/or communicated in a facile fashion, any complex project is risking higher failure rates. In-person buffering is a crutch at best.

[tswicegood]

Not sure why this got down voted to negative points. This is a good point, but one I guess a lot of startups don't want to hear. :-/