I agree. And I work remotely now. It seems the #1 requirement for remote work to work is ... mutual understanding. Otherwise you end up with communication gaps.

I agree. And I work remotely now. It seems the #1 requirement for remote work to work is ... mutual understanding. Otherwise you end up with communication gaps. The case for VCS is interesting to me because I believe we could replace a number of complex tools in the stack with proper use and style on top of that. Literally, we could do 90% of it all with just a VCS and people paying attention to it. You know: commit early, commit often, read commit messages, understand the code, run the tests. And so on and so forth...