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How a Global Team Works
in SmartNews
Yanan Cheng (a.k.a. Nick)
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YANAN CHENG
a.k.a. Nick
@nickcheng
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SmartNews
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Our Team
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Mobile Team from Tokyo
Working for US features
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Tokyo California
PM
Mobile
Team
Data
Scientists
Designers
QA Team
Backend
Team
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Day-to-day basis
- One week sprint
- One week release cycle in mobile team
- So we def have a lot of meetings
- Sprint Review Meeting
- Sprint Planning Meeting
- Demo Meeting
- Retrospective Meeting
- Company/Pillar/Squad Meetings, etc...
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Wait…
Looks we missed something...
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Let’s do a simple calculation
- Timezone
- 9am == 5pm
- 2 hrs overlap (3 hrs if not DST)
- What can we do in TWO HOURS?
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Other Issues
- Full of meetings
- PM decision maker, aka blocker
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Solutions
- Respect the schedule
- Be in one place
- Travel both way
- Refine the process
- Combine some meetings
- Decentralisation
- Don’t fear of failure
- We can fix quickly
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Pandemic
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Before the pandemic
- Tokyo team could get together
- Travel
- Cross team work
- Meet everyday
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During the pandemic
- Not change too much for a global team
compare to other team
- Some aspects just got enhanced
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More virtual meetups
- 1v1
- Team Online Gathering
- Online escape games
- Online party games
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Work Asynchronously
- Kinda missing all things carried by emails.
- Respect / Empathy
- Presence visibility
- Focus/Flexible
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Over-document
- More questions from different stakeholders
- A lot of similar questions
- Better for Async
- Organized, easy to reach
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Thank you!!