Working distributed - but how?

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Alexander Reelsen [email protected] @spinscale Verteilt arbeiten - aber wie?!

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Ofﬁce?

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Open Plan Ofﬁce?

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Co-Working?

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Home-Ofﬁce?

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Home Ofﬁce once per week?

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Company w/ single location?

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Company w/ several locations?

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Company across timezones?

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How much time do you spent commuting?

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open source

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Wikipedia

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Github

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Docker

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NASA

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Slack

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Autoscout24

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Xing

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Open Source ≠ business model

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WE BELIEVE IN OPEN SOURCE. AS A DISTRIBUTION MODEL. AS A WAY TO BUILD A BUSINESS. AND AS OUR FUTURE AS A COMPANY. Shay Banon, Elasticsearch Creator, Elastic CEO

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commercial features CCR Centralized conﬁg mgmt Alerting Security Machine Learning Graph Rollups Reporting SQL Upgrade Assistant Monitoring Canvas Logs UI Infrastructure UI APM UI

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solutions

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Elastic Stack as a Service

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support

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consulting

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training

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certiﬁcation

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2012

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> 1200 employees

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19 ofﬁces

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> 35 countries

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> 30 languages

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> 19 timezones

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distributed

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scalable

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scalable

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... culture, tools, processes How do you work together?

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culture

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trust

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intrinsic motivation

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extrinsic help

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equipment

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16 weeks paid parental leave

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timezones

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asynchronous discussions

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communication

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slack

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github

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salesforce

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discourse

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zoom

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transparency

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transparency

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communication overﬂow

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weekly email updates

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monthly department updates

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monthly all hands

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isolation

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x-school

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mentoring

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always on

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bi-yearly in person meetings

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conferences

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trainings

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Development process

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no scrum

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no kanban

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no waterfall

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time based releases

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product roadmap

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team per product

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Elasticsearch Team Area Lead Devs Area Lead Devs Area Lead Devs Area Lead Devs Tech Lead Tech Lead Team Lead Team Lead Product Manager Product Manager

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Elasticsearch Ingest Kibana Clients STACK LEAD ...

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(cross) team work

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test triage

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ﬁxit friday

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weekly release status

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bugpool

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support dev help

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Personal tidbits

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home ofﬁce is a drug

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less sick days

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holidays are sacred

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un-bus-factor

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video ﬁrst

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ﬂexibility

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hobbies

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Summary

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it's all about the infrastructure

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hiring pool

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commuting

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experience

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satellite employees

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employees are adults!

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management must lead

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… ask all the things! have fun at VillageCon! Discussion

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https://www.elastic.co/community/all-things-code https://www.elastic.co/about/our-source-code https://www.elastic.co/products/x-pack/open https://spinscale.de/posts/2018-05-08-five-years-homeoffice.html Links

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… ask all the things! have fun at VillageCon! Discussion