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Virtual Management

Great article at GameDev about virtual management:
http://www.gamedev.net/reference/business/features/virtualOffice/

The programmer in me says: Yes, this is the future and the way I always loved to do it.

The management guy in me says: I would love to try this as it really puts the meaning of sharing the responsibility and trusting to others people in to trial – this is how it should be in the real office too, but many cases it is not. I think this is the future.

Why I love doing work at home or anywhere else than office is because:

• I can choose the environment. I know where I like to work at. This is the same thing as not trying to force processes to people. Don’t force people to work at some place.
• Power. Responsibility. No one is watching after me all the time. I can answer to the phone or respond to e-mails when I’m ready to do that, this means I do not get interrupted so easily, when again in office people tend to wonder around chatting or quickly popping up to ask questions. No one cares when I do the work as long as I get it done on time.

This is why people want to be entrepreneurs, the freedom to work anywhere they feel like being most effective doing the thing they love to do.

ps. If you happen to have a small project using virtual management and you are in a need of a project manager, please, let me know. I’m more than happy to spent my spare hours helping you guys out and learning at the same time – that is a win-win situation.