www.easybib.com [email protected] Managing remote teams. Working (in a) remote (team). 

www.easybib.com [email protected] Till I’m Till Klampäckel. Good to meet you. I’ve been working remote most of my work-life. Development (LAMP stack), administration (Linux, devopsy stuff). (Project) Management. (Sorry!) @klimpong http://github.com/till http://till.klampaeckel.de/ 

www.easybib.com [email protected] Life cycle Founded my business in 2002. Started working for clients. Worked from home, or wherever I wanted to. Sometimes on site. 

www.easybib.com [email protected] Settling down Met one of the EasyBib co-founders over 12 years ago. Started freelancing for them (mostly fixing PHP code and SQL queries). In 2008 they decided to turn this website into a business and invited me to work with them. Today: Over 20 people in New York, 8 people in Berlin. 

www.easybib.com [email protected] ImagineEasy Solutions LLC We are an information literacy company. What is information literacy? 

www.easybib.com [email protected] Commercial break Some rights reserved by claire.whitehouse http://www.flickr.com/photos/citysnidget/ 

www.easybib.com [email protected] EasyBib.com EasyBib is an citation management platform. 40 million students use EasyBib every year. Over 1000 institutions subscribe, including 100 large US universities and 900 high schools and districts. 

www.easybib.com [email protected] ResearchReady.com ResearchReady teaches information literacy skills in a core curriculum. Universities and districts subscribe to give their students a research skill boost. Launched in January 2013. 

www.easybib.com [email protected] Anyway There is more, but that’s not what I’m here for. 

www.easybib.com [email protected] Remote Work • How many people do remote work? • Are you remote, or is your client remote? 

www.easybib.com [email protected] Opinions • People have lots of opinions about remote work. • (People think) Marissa Mayer hates remote work. 

www.easybib.com [email protected] Am I capable? • How do I motivate myself in the morning? • Can I work towards a healthy schedule? • Can I communicate? 

www.easybib.com [email protected] Communication • Straight-forward: replace “scalarium” with “opsworks”. • Used the opportunity to move on role-based recipes to be able to version roles in GIT. Some rights reserved by Cargo Cult http://www.flickr.com/photos/twosevenoneonenineeightthreesevenatenzerosix/ 

[email protected] Communication is easy. 

Except that it isn’t, really. >:( 

www.easybib.com [email protected] Facts • Everybody is different. • Team building is hard. • Work asynchronously. 

www.easybib.com [email protected] Tooling • Skype, VOIP, Jabber and Google Hangouts. • Google Drive and Dropbox to collaborate. • Github. • Servers in the cloud™. 

All good? 

All good? Some rights reserved by Tattooed JJ http://www.flickr.com/photos/tattoodjay/ 

www.easybib.com [email protected] How does it work? • More or less. • A constant process of improving. 

www.easybib.com [email protected] Make it work • It’s a good idea to see people. • Be responsive! 

www.easybib.com [email protected] Management perspective • Trust people. • Aim for remote teams, and not people. • Make an effort to talk to people. • Establish milestones and a steady flow of work. 

www.easybib.com [email protected] Developer • Setup your work place. • Work-life-balance. • Be honest to yourself. 

www.easybib.com [email protected] It’s that easy. 

www.easybib.com [email protected] By the way — we’re hiring! 

www.easybib.com [email protected] Questions?