Automattic, Remote, Nomadic

Presentation to the Haeme Group

Automattic - the company and our culture
How we work together, remotely and collaboratively
Tools
Nomadic life

Thank you! :)

Transcript

1. AUTOMATTIC REMOTE NOMADIC KAT CHRISTOFER
2. Agenda INTRO AUTOMATTIC HOW WE WORK TOOLS NOMADIC LIFE
3. AUTOMATTIC (a8c) Name and origin About Company creed
4. AUTOMATTIC CREED PATRICK RAULAND
5. Remote work Weekly Monthly - Town Hall Quarterly - OKRs, hack week Meetups - Team and Annual Team meetings Scheduling Hiring
6. Nomadic Life What nomadic means How/why it happened How I decide where to go How I travel Myths Will I stop?
7. LANZAROTE JULY 2015
8. MOROCCO MARCH 2016
9. SOUTH AFRICA MAY 2016
10. NEPAL MAY 2017
11. GRAND MEETUP - CANADA OCTOBER 2017
12. FRANCE NEW YEAR’S EVE 2018
13. SINGAPORE FEBRUARY 2019
14. INDONESIA FEBRUARY 2019
15. MALAYSIA FEBRUARY 2019
16. Notes Automattic
 https://automattic.com/about/
 https://automattic.com/work-with-us/
 https://distributed.blog/2019/07/02/on-building-automattic/
 Company creed https://automattic.com/creed/
 Why your company should have a creed https://ma.tt/2011/09/automattic-creed/
 
 How We Roll
 Weekly - Team check-in on P2
 Monthly - Town Hall
 Quarterly - OKRs - company and team; Hack Week - project that benefits our customers
 Team meetup - Every 6-9 months
 Company meetup - Annual 
 
 Team meetings
 Weekly or biweekly
 Agenda
 Zoom/hangout
 Time limit
 Format - Personal > agenda
 
 Scheduling
 Days and hours
 Happiness Engineers (HEs) are required to work a weekend and get a flex day in return; pick a min of chat shifts
 Trust and accountability
 Productivity
 Vacation and AFK policy
 Sabbatical
 
 Productivity talks
 https://wordpress.tv/2018/11/23/kat-christofer-y-raul-anton-salmorejo-for-success-how-to-be-super-productive-as-a-remote-worker/
 https://wordpress.tv/2019/04/07/kat-christofer-how-to-maximize-productivity-while-working-remotely/
17. Notes Tools
 Internal blogs - P2 https://p2theme.com
 Slack
 Google Suite - Docs, Sheets, Gmail, Calendar, Hangouts
 1Password, LastPass, RememBear or another password manager
 Zoom
 Trello
 Monday
 Canva and InVision for design
 GitHub
 Droplr
 CloudUp
 Zendesk (customized) - tickets
 HappyChat (in house) - live chat
 Tracks (in house) and Google Analytics - data
 WordPress
 
 Nomadic
 Travel journal https://katchristofer.com
 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/katchristofer/
 Mustang Road Trips http://mustang.katchristofer.com How Working Remotely Helped Me See the World - WordCamp Varna https://wordpress.tv/2017/09/30/kat-christopher- how-wordpress-and-working-remotely-helped-me-see-the-world/