Matt:"like i mentioned in the other thread, i meant my criticism it all in good fun and completely appreciate the nature of third party services for things like this."
No Matt - my bad. Any sane normal being would have understood your point in the context it was intended. I, on the other hand, have spent the best part of 8 years working with developers in far flung places through email. In very simple terms you can either drive a developer or feed them. I've been on more than enough programs where a PM, marketing or technical lead chewed the head off a developer over email. The quality of work goes south after those kind of interactions. There's a quote from Patton that I think rings very true for development "Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." and in the same vein, when someone invariably produces work that's not up to spec I find its best to understand why they failed and then -encourage- them to correct. Fwiw, working with remote developers is a topic I'm reasonably involved with. I gave a 10 minute presentation at UPA Boston in November: http://www.slideshare.net/radiorental/designing-within-the-outoffshoring-busines-model Its a very high level deck (complex topic - 10 minutes) and here's my notes for the presentation: http://web.mac.com/pauric_ocallaghan/Designing_with_outsourcing.doc Its all a little light on details but worth a scan if you're interested. Again, apologies for snapping, you weren't out of order... I had just got out of one of those meetings. kind regards -p . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://gamma.ixda.org/discuss?post=23261 ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
