Things you need when you work away from a corporate office
Posted by Alec on 2 January 2007
Judi lists some useful ideas for when you have steeped outside the corporate comfort zone (i.e. freelance working from home). I’d like to add my own suggestions:
- Make sure you can access your email via any web browser. Even when your laptop is fried or you can’t get to the internet with it you still need to be able to access your email at client sites or from a kiosk (and keep copies of the emails on your mail server)
- Ensure you have an effective voice mail system
- There should be a proper and adequate filling space for paper records and documents. It makes your life a lot harder when you can’t find trivial things.
- Try and have processes and templates for doing the boring stuff. That way you can reduce the number of stupid mistakes, get faster and free up energy for creative work. This type of material needs a regular review (either on a schedule or as it is being used) to make sure that it’s continually improved
- Use a version control tool (I use Subversion and SVK together) to track changes to your digital assets. I use a remote repository supplied by my server provider, Digital Dimensions, so it also saves me a lot of backup headaches. I wrote some notes
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