Outsourcing vs. Insourcing: Insights to Playrix's distributed team Yulia Krylova Art Manager october 2018 

ABOUT THE COMPANY 14 years #1 in the CIS top 10 in the world ▪ ▪ ▪ 

TITLES 

TEAM 1,000+ 30% EMPLOYEES WORK REMOTELY 

PLAYRIX GEOGRAPHY 

HOMESCAPES TEAM Moscow Vologda Saint-Petersburg Petrozavodsk Velikiy Novgorod Ivanovo Saratov Kharkov Rostov-on-Don Kiev Kaliningrad Novosibirsk Almaty Chelyabinsk Erevan Krasnoyarsk Murmansk Yakutsk Minsk Hamburg Vladivostok Mogilyov Voronezh Volgograd Odessa Naberezhnye Chelny Riga Karaganda Yoshkar-Ola Vitebsk 

OFFICES 

Distributed team: how it all began... 

Is it manageable at all? 

CONVENTIONAL TEAM 

OUTSOURCED TEAM 

Distributed team challenges ▪ Information gaps and lack of communication ▪ Decision-making takes more time ▪ Different time zones ▪ Transparency and efficiency ▪ Adaptation and career growth 

LACK OF COMMUNICATION ▪ 1:1 with managers and team leads ▪ Developing group problem solving-skills ▪ Conference calls ▪ Business trips and mini-events ▪ Channels in Slack for work and fun ▪ Online events and contests ▪ QA sessions ▪ PlayrixCON 

Decision-making takes more time ▪ Plan accordingly ▪ Use conference calls ▪ Work in smaller teams 

DIFFERENT TIME ZONES ▪ Everything is scheduled individually depending on the project team needs and priorities 

Transparency and efficiency ▪ Planning and priorities ▪ Synchronization ▪ Transparent and clear task tracking system ▪ Feedback ▪ Efficiency evaluation 

Adaptation and career growth ▪ Extensive onboard training ▪ Mentoring system ▪ Clear and consistent feedback, predictability ▪ Identifying and developing employees’ potential 

DREAM TEAM 

QUESTIONS? 

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