Technology is Your Office

Doing a great job when your team is spread across the globe used to be nearly impossible. Nowadays, it’s almost the norm; This presentation shows you why that is - and how to pull it off.

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1. Technology is Your Office Friday, 9 March, 12
2. Who am I, right? Horia Dragomir UI Developer @ wooga HTML5 Social Games Friday, 9 March, 12
3. working in the same space traditionally faster and better Friday, 9 March, 12
4. No longer the case, though Friday, 9 March, 12
5. “Management” Development Design 42 Friday, 9 March, 12
6. Talent is Where Talent is. Friday, 9 March, 12
7. Silicon Valleys Friday, 9 March, 12
8. Boring places are just Friday, 9 March, 12
9. Once Upon A Time • 6 Geeks • 3 Projects • 4 Continents Friday, 9 March, 12
10. Distributed is Hard Friday, 9 March, 12
11. Keeping it Together is Hard Friday, 9 March, 12
12. Great Communication Friday, 9 March, 12
13. Friday, 9 March, 12
14. Skype • office like group conversation • custom notifications • great for file transfers Friday, 9 March, 12
15. We Used Email Friday, 9 March, 12
16. Email • all@your-organization.co.uk • standard footer • each team gets their own email Friday, 9 March, 12
17. Google Apps Friday, 9 March, 12
18. docs.google.com Friday, 9 March, 12
19. Awesome Management Friday, 9 March, 12
20. basecamp Friday, 9 March, 12
21. redmine Friday, 9 March, 12
22. pivotaltracker Friday, 9 March, 12
23. ... even JIRA Friday, 9 March, 12
24. Clients Are Tougher To Handle Friday, 9 March, 12
25. everytimezone.com Friday, 9 March, 12
26. Management Needs to Manage Friday, 9 March, 12
27. Or Just Get Out of the Way Friday, 9 March, 12
28. Developers Need Freedom Friday, 9 March, 12
29. Developers Need Freedom Not too much as you need coding standards or else you will go mad. Fast. Friday, 9 March, 12
30. Developers Love Having Their Own Rhythm Friday, 9 March, 12
31. git Friday, 9 March, 12
32. No, SVN does not really cut it Friday, 9 March, 12
33. Windows? hg does wonders Friday, 9 March, 12
34. github Friday, 9 March, 12
35. github.com • pull requests • github issues • teams, organizations • private repositories Friday, 9 March, 12
36. Pair Programming Friday, 9 March, 12
37. Pair Programming hard when you’re not in the same room Friday, 9 March, 12
38. Pair Programming can prove harmful Friday, 9 March, 12
39. Remote Means Devs Get Their Private Time Friday, 9 March, 12
40. Screen Sharing and voice call Friday, 9 March, 12
41. yuuguu cross platform screen sharing Friday, 9 March, 12
42. Skype still the best voice call software Friday, 9 March, 12
43. Google Chrome Extension cross platform screen sharing, even on chromebooks Friday, 9 March, 12
44. cloud9 IDE surprising results with multiple user editing superb git integration Friday, 9 March, 12
45. Google Chat very, very reliable Friday, 9 March, 12
46. Have CI it will save your wits Friday, 9 March, 12
47. Don’t Let Backends Design! ever Friday, 9 March, 12
48. Making Things Pretty from afar Friday, 9 March, 12
49. Wireframe mocking bird, balsamiq, axxure Friday, 9 March, 12
50. photoshopetiquette.com designers already speak too many languages Friday, 9 March, 12
51. layer vault like git for designers Friday, 9 March, 12
52. Revisions much more sour from afar Friday, 9 March, 12
53. UI Devs Need to talk to the Designers Frontends are great at communicating with backend developers -- and they also understand designers Friday, 9 March, 12
54. Keeping people talking is hard Friday, 9 March, 12
55. Culture so much harder to set up remotely Friday, 9 March, 12
56. Games anything that has multiplayer or is online based Friday, 9 March, 12
57. Intranet and set up a knowledge base Friday, 9 March, 12
58. Meet Have fun AND get some work done Friday, 9 March, 12
59. Go To Conferences like this one Friday, 9 March, 12
60. Communicate Culture because the rest is up to technology Friday, 9 March, 12
61. Communicate Culture @hdragomir @wooga because the rest is up to technology Friday, 9 March, 12
62. urbanspoon.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/ 64855676@N06/6068701421/sizes/z/in/photostream/ Friday, 9 March, 12