The virtual firmware game plan
Issue 2: Ideas come by "sitting around the scope" (the engineer's equivalent to the water cooler). When you're all looking at "that trace" on the scope scratching your heads, not only do ideas arise, but actions can come from it that lead to solutions. Now you could mitigate this via teleconferences, screen sharing, and so forth. But the problem here is that this is spontaneous. You walk by Greg's cube, he looks up. You say to him, "Hey buddy how's it going." The next thing you know you're finger-greasing up the screen on his scope, logic analyzer, frequency analyzer, who knows.
Game plan: OK, this is a tricky one. Hard to spontaneously walk by your colleague virtually. But! What about a chat tool? Skype for example. Perhaps it has to be a bit more deliberate then just the occasional "walk by." You can still simulate the walk-by with a chat tool. "Hey Brett, how's it going ;)," you type. Got to add in your emotions!
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