Building and Scaling an Distributed and Inclusive Team

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   Travis CI travis-ci.com Mathias Meyer, CEO @roidrage Building and Scaling

   a Distributed and Inclusive Team
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   @roidrage

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   @roidrage !

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   @roidrage !"#$%&'( 40 Builders 9 Native Languages !)*#$+,-.

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   @roidrage 15 Home Countries !")/*#$& ,-.0'(1

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   @roidrage ~50% Remote

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   @roidrage • Large Customer Base in US • Increasing Diversity

   Push for Remote
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   @roidrage “Distributed teams increase the chances of diversity due to

   having people from different cultures and backgrounds.” Travis CI Team
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    @roidrage *Jan Lehnardt <include> <async/> <div></div> </include>

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    @roidrage Communication Culture

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    @roidrage Communication Culture

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    @roidrage

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    @roidrage

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    @roidrage ChatOps

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    @roidrage #incident-response

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    @roidrage

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    @roidrage

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    @roidrage

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    @roidrage

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    @roidrage

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    @roidrage

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    @roidrage GitHub Issues Create Visibility

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    @roidrage how-we-work

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    @roidrage Continuous Integration for Company Culture

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    @roidrage

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    @roidrage

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    @roidrage Inclusive Decision Making

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    @roidrage Distributed Teams Incur a Tax on Communication

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    @roidrage David Marquet: Turn The Ship Around “Don’t move information

    to authority, move authority to the information.”
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    @roidrage “Less oral communication means more accidental documentation.” Travis CI

    Team
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    @roidrage

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    @roidrage Distributed Facetime

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    @roidrage

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    @roidrage Continuous Improvement Talks

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    @roidrage

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    @roidrage A Distributed Team’s Biggest Challenge: Inclusive Communication

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    @roidrage Communication Culture

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    @roidrage Engineering Culture

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    @roidrage

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    @roidrage Blameless Culture

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    @roidrage Blameless Culture = Learning Culture

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    @roidrage Engineers Work Customer Support

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    @roidrage Different Cultures

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    @roidrage

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    @roidrage • Good • Great • Needs Improvement "

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    @roidrage • Great • Good • Needs Improvement • Okay

    • Nope !
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    @roidrage Europameisterschaftsqualifikationsrunde

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    @roidrage English is Ambiguous

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    @roidrage

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    @roidrage Tone and Nuance Get Lost in Writing

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    @roidrage Travis CI Team “Never attribute to malice or stupidity

    that which is adequately explained by a missing perspective.”
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    @roidrage YMMV

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    Travis CI travis-ci.com Mathias Meyer, CEO @roidrage Thank you!