Engineering Teams in a Time of Corona

It’s been a month since San Francisco and the surrounding counties announced a lockdown, and at least a couple of weeks in most of the US. The good news is that it’s possible to build software even when everyone is staying at home every day, unlike a lot of jobs!

The bad news is this isn’t remote working, not the way that anyone has ever talked about it before. In the words of Juan Pablo Buritica, this is “stuck at home work”, and that’s much worse.

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1. April 16, 2020
   Engineering Teams
   in a Time of Corona
   

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2. 1. How a global pandemic is affecting us
   2. What does this mean for “productivity”?
   3. A baseline for pandemic remote work
   4. Explicit communication and modeling
   5. Recruiting and interviewing
   6. It’s a marathon, not a sprint
   7. Q&A
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3. trapped in our homes
   where we are at today
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4. this is the new normal
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   bad news: it’s a global pandemic
   

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5. down to zero is a good start
   reset your
   expectations
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6. what is this “productivity” you speak of?
   productivity and success
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7. in the time of corona
   how to work
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8. write it, slack it, email it, zoom it
   implicit to explicit
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9. have a good night everyone,
   I’m logging off for the day
   model new norms
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10. 10
    async is the new sync
    less meetings,
    more communication
    

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11. are you best ever at computerings?
    interviews
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12. i don’t make the rules, sorry
    sprints are over, this is a marathon
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13. maybe even answers!
    questions?
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14. Further reading
    How to adapt to a long term crisis by Aisha Ahmad
    Work in the Time of Corona by Alice Goldfuss
    Remote Interviewing by Moishe Lettvin
    Pairing: A Guide to Fruitful Collaboration by André Arko
    A guide to distributed teams by Juan Pablo Buriticá and Katie Womersley
    A Crash Course in Remote Management by Cate Huston
    

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15. Useful tools
    Screen sharing
    - Screen.so
    - Tuple.app
    - Zoom
    Asynchronous updates
    - GeekBot
    - P2
    - Old fashioned email lists
    Socializing
    - Donut
    - Scheduled team chats
    Acknowledgements
    Feedback from
    Duretti Hirpa
    Juan Pablo Buriticá
    Illustrations by
    icons8
    Slide design by
    Cloud City’s Brendan Miller
    Support from
    The Cloud City team
    

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16. still need more?
    Work with us!
    cloudcity.io/contact
    

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