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1 Making a distributed working environment work well
 
 Michael Stahnke VP Platform @stahnma

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@stahnma @stahnma

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@stahnma

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Fallacies of distributed computing The network is reliable Latency is zero Bandwidth is infinite The network is secure Topology doesn’t change There is one administrator Transport cost is zero The network is homogeneous

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@stahnma

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9 The Company

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No Islands @stahnma

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13 Management Tips

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–Johnny Appleseed Say what do, do what you say @stahnma

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Communication must be deliberate @stahnma

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@stahnma provide context for the team. @stahnma

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@stahnma Don’t have face to face meetings for broadcast

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@stahnma Record output from meetings @stahnma

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@stahnma Delegate with authority @stahnma

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What do you do for work? Programming What do you do for fun?
 Programming What do you do when you’re not programming? Think about Programming @stahnma

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@stahnma Working remotely once, means they can more easily do it again. @stahnma

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@stahnma Working remotely once, means they can more easily do it again. @stahnma

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24 Employee Tips

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26 The Culture

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–Johnny Appleseed Commit to the Culture @stahnma

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@stahnma Team hangout @stahnma

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@stahnma –Johnny Appleseed Picture of the life-size conference room @stahnma

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@stahnma –Johnny Appleseed Drive the team with tech. @stahnma

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@stahnma Remove private channels in slack/ hipchat @stahnma

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Get picture of a dashboard setup here @stahnma

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UTC date -d ‘2016–03–28 22:00 UTC’ @stahnma

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36 The Hard Problems

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–Johnny Appleseed Community Involvement @stahnma

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@stahnma Interviewing @stahnma

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@stahnma Difficulty brining in distributed entry- level folks @stahnma

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Fallacies of distributed human communication The network is reliable Latency is zero Bandwidth is infinite The network is secure Topology doesn’t change There is one administrator Transport cost is zero The network is homogeneous Communication is reliable Everybody is in the same timezone AV is a solved problem The network is secure Incentives for a human don’t vary Tribal knowledge works There is a travel budget Humans have the same work style @stahnma

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@stahnma Thank you.

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References https://medium.com/@stahnma/on-working-remotely-part-1-909e9968ecbb https://medium.com/@stahnma/remote-management-on-working-remotely-part-ii-9e938fe0ea75 https://medium.com/@stahnma/the-company-with-remote-employees-on-working-remotely-part- iii-6555e253d63f https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/velocity-2016-/9781491944653/video261531.html @stahnma