I've been in similar situations. Here's my lessons learned that haven't already been posted:
Have a current Passport and plan a travel budget so that one party or the other trades off coming to the other's home site, depending upon the nature of the work, at least once a month.
Both parties must have an adjusted work day to accommodate the different time zones - get as much same time in office as possible.
Since you're going to be on the phone daily, get a good overseas carrier and attempt to buy bulk rate time.
Investigate satellite VTC with secure hookup because you don't want to worry about your business practices stolen. Buy time blocks and negotiate, negotiate, negotiate. (Don't use Internet VTC! I can listen in too easily. Remember, it's your company's intellectual property you're trying to protect.)
Hire a person from the Military with C4SI to help you setup your project. (They're getting out of Uncle Sugar's service all the time.) Or hire a firm with these folks to be your security advisors.
Use a virutal server (it should be transparent to the every day user where it's located) or replicate servers.
Out of sight is out of mind. Visit, talk, talk, visit, talk, visit, etc.
Project/program management is tough enough without large distances and language barriers. Think outside the box, but be secure. Remember, step outside this country and people will be looking to kill you. Thus, my recommendation for a sound security plan.
After the above, running the project will be a piece of cake. 8-)
Good luck! Been there, done that, got the T-shirt & ball cap.
OK. I can't program any more (lost my union card), but, as a power user, I'm a hellva Alpha/Beta/Gamma tester since my business is pager. (I'm a program manager.)
So, if someone is going to build the Mac OS X team, where do I sign up to be a helper?
What would I do without my HP 12C (budgets, etc) and 15C (engineering)?! I bought both in the 80's after wearing out Sharp's, TI's and the rest of the cheaper brands. Did I get my money worth? You, betcha, Red Ridder!
When I was in the airplane design business, I had the 15C programmed with the atmospheric tables along with the basic equations of flight. Came in handier than hell. At the workstation, I'd catch code errors. In meetings, I was like that kid in the GE commercial on the laptop, ordering plastics. Kept my section leader from stepping on himself.
Now, I'm a program manager, and I use the 12C to keep my Financial wiz's honest. I know how to program a mean spreadsheet, but I check it with the 12C.
Both calculators are in my brief case and go with me everywhere. I've yet to wear them out, and, as long as batteries are available, I'll keep them going.
Long live the King! May He return in a new business cycle.
I'm running Mac OS X 10.1 on an 8600 with a Powerlogix G4/450 CPU daughter card, 750MB RAM, and a Powerlogix USB/Firewire PCI card. Ryan's stuff really works, thank you very much. However, the floppy drive is on his "To Do" list. NBT.
The compressed windows thingy works! However, use the copy & paste from the MacNN forum link in the original story above. the ones listed above have errors due to Slashdot's html. ***Very Important***
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- Have a current Passport and plan a travel budget so that one party or the other trades off coming to the other's home site, depending upon the nature of the work, at least once a month.
- Both parties must have an adjusted work day to accommodate the different time zones - get as much same time in office as possible.
- Since you're going to be on the phone daily, get a good overseas carrier and attempt to buy bulk rate time.
- Investigate satellite VTC with secure hookup because you don't want to worry about your business practices stolen. Buy time blocks and negotiate, negotiate, negotiate. (Don't use Internet VTC! I can listen in too easily. Remember, it's your company's intellectual property you're trying to protect.)
- Hire a person from the Military with C4SI to help you setup your project. (They're getting out of Uncle Sugar's service all the time.) Or hire a firm with these folks to be your security advisors.
- Use a virutal server (it should be transparent to the every day user where it's located) or replicate servers.
- Out of sight is out of mind. Visit, talk, talk, visit, talk, visit, etc.
Project/program management is tough enough without large distances and language barriers. Think outside the box, but be secure. Remember, step outside this country and people will be looking to kill you. Thus, my recommendation for a sound security plan.After the above, running the project will be a piece of cake. 8-)
Good luck! Been there, done that, got the T-shirt & ball cap.
--Stork
So, if someone is going to build the Mac OS X team, where do I sign up to be a helper?
--Stork
Deliverin' the Goods
When I was in the airplane design business, I had the 15C programmed with the atmospheric tables along with the basic equations of flight. Came in handier than hell. At the workstation, I'd catch code errors. In meetings, I was like that kid in the GE commercial on the laptop, ordering plastics. Kept my section leader from stepping on himself.
Now, I'm a program manager, and I use the 12C to keep my Financial wiz's honest. I know how to program a mean spreadsheet, but I check it with the 12C.
Both calculators are in my brief case and go with me everywhere. I've yet to wear them out, and, as long as batteries are available, I'll keep them going.
Long live the King! May He return in a new business cycle.
--Stork
Purdue Unviersity, Aero & Astro Engineering, 70
I'm running Mac OS X 10.1 on an 8600 with a Powerlogix G4/450 CPU daughter card, 750MB RAM, and a Powerlogix USB/Firewire PCI card. Ryan's stuff really works, thank you very much. However, the floppy drive is on his "To Do" list. NBT.
The compressed windows thingy works! However, use the copy & paste from the MacNN forum link in the original story above. the ones listed above have errors due to Slashdot's html. ***Very Important***
Thanks for the tips links guys!