I've been collaborating with a bunch of people all over the globe on my latest contract and so far the hardest thing has been coordinating dependencies. If my t

I've been collaborating with a bunch of people all over the globe on my latest contract and so far the hardest thing has been coordinating dependencies. If my task depends on somebody else's task but he's in a different time zone it can take a couple of days of messages to get things going in the right direction. I think the key here is to nail down the design and any related specs as much as possible upfront. The more you have to sculpt things as they go along the more time you lose in coordination.