[jdawg77]

Fantastic article and in the past seven months, we've been a basecamp user, then former basecamp user, as we switched to Trello. Ironically that was for cost, like switching from 3rd party to (finally) a home grown php tool to replace the Saas $200 fee.

Essentially, what we're seeing from my team's perspective are the culmination of a few trends that started being bigger back in 2003, when I first worked from home full time for about six months, prior to joining Yahoo at giving up the lifestyle for a few years. With nearly ~6.5 years in WFH experience; I've done it nearly half my professional career.

Those who can make it work, do it the way in the article, there's no option, only pain, to that process. It broke up a 12 year business partnership I had, in the end, written goals were broken, therefore, I ejected. Simple, straightforward and asynchronous. There's a movement, tempo to when a team is producing. My CTO and I are incredible partners this way, and we spend less than twenty minutes per session "Talking," because he's even more introvert than me, it seems.

At the end of the day, team's ship something. Marketers should be shipping business models, spreadsheets, powerpoints, Adwords copy, Blog Posts, Social Posts, Images, Videos and more. Engineers ship code, so, they rock and should have it a bit more straightforward.

Designers ship design. If the "Business monkey," isn't playing secretary, documenting things and helping others ship, OR shipping something with their fingerprints all over it, something is broken. For a production oriented individual, remote, WFH work is the most empowering kind.

Freedom. Run at your own pace, if the team gets slow, develop new skills, a new hobby and explore. The digital world is a vast place; for example, I'm building free, open source SaaS, running two blogs, a team, built two visual novels this month, learned Daz3d, Carrara, Gimp for animation & more.

I ship what and how I want, when I want & where. The team does the same, as a group, we have aligned objectives. So the business moves at one pace, and as an individual, I carve my own lane. Run ahead, scout, explore, learn and grow. Then perhaps, those skills in animation & 3d become useful to the business. Or not. Time will tell.

Great article, and thanks for posting your experiences. I love learning.