Managing remote teams

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   Managing remote teams.
   Working (in a) remote (team).
   

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   Till
   I’m Till Klampäckel. Good to meet you.
   I’ve been working remote most of my work-life.
   Development (LAMP stack), administration (Linux, devopsy
   stuff). (Project) Management. (Sorry!)
   @klimpong
   http://github.com/till
   http://till.klampaeckel.de/
   

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   Life cycle
   Founded my business in 2002.
   Started working for clients.
   Worked from home, or wherever I wanted to.
   Sometimes on site.
   

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   Settling down
   Met one of the EasyBib co-founders over 12
   years ago.
   Started freelancing for them (mostly fixing PHP code and
   SQL queries).
   In 2008 they decided to turn this website into a business and
   invited me to work with them.
   Today: Over 20 people in New York, 8 people in Berlin.
   

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   ImagineEasy Solutions LLC
   We are an information literacy company.
   What is information literacy?
   

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   Commercial break
   Some rights reserved by claire.whitehouse
   http://www.flickr.com/photos/citysnidget/
   

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   EasyBib.com
   EasyBib is an citation management platform. 40 million students use EasyBib every year.
   Over 1000 institutions subscribe, including 100 large US universities and 900 high schools
   and districts.
   

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   ResearchReady.com
   ResearchReady teaches information literacy skills in a core curriculum. Universities and
   districts subscribe to give their students a research skill boost. Launched in January 2013.
   

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   Anyway
   There is more, but that’s not what I’m here for.
   

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    Remote Work
    • How many people do remote work?
    • Are you remote, or is your client remote?
    

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    Opinions
    • People have lots of opinions about remote work.
    • (People think) Marissa Mayer hates remote work.
    

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    Am I capable?
    • How do I motivate myself in the morning?
    • Can I work towards a healthy schedule?
    • Can I communicate?
    

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    Communication
    • Straight-forward: replace “scalarium” with
    “opsworks”.
    • Used the opportunity to move on role-based
    recipes to be able to version roles in GIT.
    Some rights reserved by Cargo Cult
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/twosevenoneonenineeightthreesevenatenzerosix/
    

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    Communication is easy.
    

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15. Except that it isn’t, really. >:(
    

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    Facts
    • Everybody is different.
    • Team building is hard.
    • Work asynchronously.
    

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    Tooling
    • Skype, VOIP, Jabber and Google Hangouts.
    • Google Drive and Dropbox to collaborate.
    • Github.
    • Servers in the cloud™.
    

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18. All good?
    

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19. All good?
    Some rights reserved by Tattooed JJ
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/tattoodjay/
    

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    How does it work?
    • More or less.
    • A constant process of improving.
    

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    Make it work
    • It’s a good idea to see people.
    • Be responsive!
    

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    Management perspective
    • Trust people.
    • Aim for remote teams, and not people.
    • Make an effort to talk to people.
    • Establish milestones and a steady flow of work.
    

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    Developer
    • Setup your work place.
    • Work-life-balance.
    • Be honest to yourself.
    

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    It’s that easy.
    

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    By the way — we’re hiring!
    

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    Questions?
    

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