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
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trapped in our homes
where we are at today
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this is the new normal
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bad news: it’s a global pandemic
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down to zero is a good start
reset your
expectations
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what is this “productivity” you speak of?
productivity and success
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in the time of corona
how to work
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write it, slack it, email it, zoom it
implicit to explicit
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have a good night everyone,
I’m logging off for the day
model new norms
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async is the new sync
less meetings,
more communication
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are you best ever at computerings?
interviews
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i don’t make the rules, sorry
sprints are over, this is a marathon
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maybe even answers!
questions?
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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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