You need both an extremely smooth running company and extremely motivated, well-organized, disciplined and communicative developers to pull it off. One small p

You need both an extremely smooth running company and extremely motivated, well-organized, disciplined and communicative developers to pull it off. One small problem: the number of developers who think they can handle working remotely in a team is much greater than those that actually can. One major problem: none of these factors are constants. They are variables, and if they change in the middle of your project, none of the many things you could do to get a physically co-located team or company back on track will work. In fact, unlike a team you see every day, it may take you a lot longer to even notice something is off. People so underestimate the importance of body language in human co-operation. The way someone walks into a room can sometimes tell you way more than 2 hours on a Skype call.