> rather than grabbing her for a "Can you look at this?" over the shoulder, it gets slung over the fence Is that experience, or speculation? Having worked remo

> rather than grabbing her for a "Can you look at this?" over the shoulder, it gets slung over the fence Is that experience, or speculation? Having worked remotely on large teams for a decade myself, I've had just about the opposite experience. The unavailability of a component's main developer can be a powerful spur to dive in and take matters into one's own hands, vs. the short-term convenience but long-term bottleneck of always walking over to your hypothetical Naimh for assistance. This effect is seen all the time in large open source projects, even for challenging code e.g. in the Linux kernel. If your experience has been otherwise, that suggests more about your team than about remote teams in general.