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April 16, 2020 Engineering Teams in a Time of Corona

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1. How a global pandemic is affecting us 2. What does this mean for “productivity”? 3. A baseline for pandemic remote work 4. Explicit communication and modeling 5. Recruiting and interviewing 6. It’s a marathon, not a sprint 7. Q&A 2

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trapped in our homes where we are at today 3

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this is the new normal 4 bad news: it’s a global pandemic

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down to zero is a good start reset your expectations 5

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what is this “productivity” you speak of? productivity and success 6

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in the time of corona how to work 7

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write it, slack it, email it, zoom it implicit to explicit 8

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have a good night everyone, I’m logging off for the day model new norms 9

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10 async is the new sync less meetings, more communication

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are you best ever at computerings? interviews 11

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i don’t make the rules, sorry sprints are over, this is a marathon 12

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maybe even answers! questions? 13

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Further reading How to adapt to a long term crisis by Aisha Ahmad Work in the Time of Corona by Alice Goldfuss Remote Interviewing by Moishe Lettvin Pairing: A Guide to Fruitful Collaboration by André Arko A guide to distributed teams by Juan Pablo Buriticá and Katie Womersley A Crash Course in Remote Management by Cate Huston

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Useful tools Screen sharing - Screen.so - Tuple.app - Zoom Asynchronous updates - GeekBot - P2 - Old fashioned email lists Socializing - Donut - Scheduled team chats Acknowledgements Feedback from Duretti Hirpa Juan Pablo Buriticá Illustrations by icons8 Slide design by Cloud City’s Brendan Miller Support from The Cloud City team

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still need more? Work with us! cloudcity.io/contact

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