Must be willing to relocate: Not Anymore

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@stahnma Must be Willing to Relocate:  Not Anymore Michael Stahnke Director of Engineering: Puppet, Inc

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@stahnma Must be Willing to Relocate:  Not Anymore

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Michael Stahnke Puppet, Inc Director of Engineering @stahnma

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@stahnma Remote Work Stuff

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@stahnma Remote Work Stuff

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@stahnma 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 About me

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@stahnma About me

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@stahnma About me

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@stahnma –Johnny Appleseed Being Remote

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@stahnma My Fears • I wouldn’t be able to divide work/home life very well

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@stahnma My Fears • I’d miss hallway conversations that turned out to be important

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@stahnma My Fears • Timezones

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@stahnma My Fears • I wouldn’t be good at managing a team remotely

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@stahnma Lessons Don’t be the sole remote person Don’t think that working from home a day or two a week is same experience

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@stahnma –Johnny Appleseed “Type a quote here.”

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@stahnma –Johnny Appleseed Picture of my fridge

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@stahnma The results

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@stahnma Working during a meeting

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@stahnma –Johnny Appleseed Picture of bluejeans video conference

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@stahnma 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

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@stahnma Ask for things in writing

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@stahnma Communication must be deliberate

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@stahnma 1:1s are sacred

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@stahnma Remove private channels in slack/hipchat

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@stahnma provide context for the team.

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

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@stahnma The quick chat

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@stahnma Team hangout

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@stahnma Flexible hours

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@stahnma Performance evaluations

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@stahnma Don’t care where you work

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@stahnma Delegate with authority

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

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

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@stahnma Interviewing

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@stahnma Difﬁculty brining in distributed entry-level folks

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@stahnma Email: It’s still a thing

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@stahnma –Johnny Appleseed Drive the team with tech.

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@stahnma –Johnny Appleseed Being distributed reenforces the best management behaviors

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@stahnma The company

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@stahnma Invest in tech for remote employees

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

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@stahnma Record output from meetings

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@stahnma Dashboard need to be viewable by people not in the ofﬁce

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@stahnma Get picture of a dashboard setup here

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@stahnma Enable local community participation

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@stahnma Recognize remote folks care packages

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@stahnma Don’t skimp on the travel

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@stahnma Classes and workshops

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

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@stahnma • Remote First — minimal/no central location. Everybody distributed. Nobody is left out for not being in the main ofﬁce, as there isn’t one or it has minimal presence. • Remote Friendly — large group in a single place, tries hard to include others. Includes proper investments in equipment, travel and experience. • Remote Tolerant — it’s on the remote employee to make this work.

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@stahnma 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