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		AlexandrB on Jan 31, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Short Rant About Working Remotely What about this case study on the development of Windows Vista? -- http://macbeth.cs.ucdavis.edu/distributed.pdf Granted, it doesn't study efficiency but defect rates, but having development distributed geographically was shown to have little negative effect.

adrianhoward on Jan 31, 2013 [–]

Thank you! Somebody had pointed me to that before but it hadn't made it into my reading pile yet. Added to the list.

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