"Is it churlish to suggest that the most clear counter-example to "all in same room" is http://git.kernel.org/ "
Not churlish - maybe misguided ;-) I'm really not trying to suggest that distributed work is bad / evil / fails. Just that - all things being equal - colocated teams win. That there is a substantial body of evidence that not being colocated carries a substantial productivity hit.
My "gut feeling" is that regular funded sprint meetings plus remote working is an area of research that may well yield best long term trends.
But wheres the proof :-)
Indeed! It's the complete absence of "distributed teams do X and Y better" research that I find fascinating. Unless it's hiding in a corner that I've not been able to find.
I'd be curious to know if any of the quoted research looked at open source projects. In addition, I'd be curious to know if it included organizations such as GitHub and 37signals, especially given how old it is.
Not churlish - maybe misguided ;-) I'm really not trying to suggest that distributed work is bad / evil / fails. Just that - all things being equal - colocated teams win. That there is a substantial body of evidence that not being colocated carries a substantial productivity hit.
My "gut feeling" is that regular funded sprint meetings plus remote working is an area of research that may well yield best long term trends. But wheres the proof :-)
Indeed! It's the complete absence of "distributed teams do X and Y better" research that I find fascinating. Unless it's hiding in a corner that I've not been able to find.