Using electronic communication to implement a multi-location software development project

The paper discusses a two person development effort where one developer resided in San Francisco and the other was located in Cincinnati. The team met once at the beginning for two days and toward the end of the project for less than a day. The design was refined to its current form through prototyping and iterative usability testing. All levels of management and users have widely accepted the resulting product. The primary communication paths were the telephone and Lotus Notes. The resulting team synergy and critical success factors are further detailed