Working distributed - but how?

This is a talk about distributed work, how it is done at Elastic. How do we work together, how does the development process look like, what are the hard parts about distributed work, what does work exceptionally well?

Transcript

1. Alexander Reelsen alex@elastic.co @spinscale Verteilt arbeiten - aber wie?!
2. Office?
3. Open Plan Office?
4. Co-Working?
5. Home-Office?
6. Home Office once per week?
7. Company w/ single location?
8. Company w/ several locations?
9. Company across timezones?
10. How much time do you spent commuting?
12. open source
13. Wikipedia
14. Github
15. Docker
16. NASA
17. Slack
18. Autoscout24
19. Xing
22. Open Source ≠ business model
23. WE BELIEVE IN OPEN SOURCE. AS A DISTRIBUTION MODEL. AS A WAY TO BUILD A BUSINESS. AND AS OUR FUTURE AS A COMPANY. Shay Banon, Elasticsearch Creator, Elastic CEO
24. commercial features CCR Centralized config mgmt Alerting Security Machine Learning Graph Rollups Reporting SQL Upgrade Assistant Monitoring Canvas Logs UI Infrastructure UI APM UI
25. solutions
26. Elastic Stack as a Service
27. support
28. consulting
29. training
30. certification
33. > 1200 employees
34. 19 offices
35. > 35 countries
36. > 30 languages
37. > 19 timezones
38. distributed
39. scalable
40. scalable
41. ... culture, tools, processes How do you work together?
42. culture
43. trust
44. intrinsic motivation
45. extrinsic help
46. equipment
47. 16 weeks paid parental leave
48. timezones
49. asynchronous discussions
50. communication
51. slack
52. github
53. email
54. salesforce
55. discourse
56. zoom
57. transparency
58. transparency
59. communication overflow
60. weekly email updates
61. monthly department updates
62. monthly all hands
63. isolation
64. x-school
65. mentoring
66. always on
67. bi-yearly in person meetings
68. conferences
69. trainings
70. Development process
71. no scrum
72. no kanban
73. no waterfall
74. time based releases
75. product roadmap
76. team per product
77. Elasticsearch Team Area Lead Devs Area Lead Devs Area Lead Devs Area Lead Devs Tech Lead Tech Lead Team Lead Team Lead Product Manager Product Manager
78. Elasticsearch Ingest Kibana Clients STACK LEAD ...
79. (cross) team work
80. test triage
81. fixit friday
82. weekly release status
83. bugpool
84. support dev help
85. Personal tidbits
86. home office is a drug
87. less sick days
88. holidays are sacred
89. un-bus-factor
90. video first
91. flexibility
92. hobbies
93. Summary
94. it's all about the infrastructure
95. hiring pool
96. commuting
97. experience
98. satellite employees
99. employees are adults!
100. management must lead
103. … ask all the things! have fun at VillageCon! Discussion
104. https://www.elastic.co/community/all-things-code https://www.elastic.co/about/our-source-code https://www.elastic.co/products/x-pack/open https://spinscale.de/posts/2018-05-08-five-years-homeoffice.html Links
105. … ask all the things! have fun at VillageCon! Discussion