Managing remote teams

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1. www.easybib.com jobs@imagineeasy.com Managing remote teams. Working (in a) remote (team).
2. www.easybib.com jobs@imagineeasy.com 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/
3. www.easybib.com jobs@imagineeasy.com Life cycle Founded my business in 2002. Started working for clients. Worked from home, or wherever I wanted to. Sometimes on site.
4. www.easybib.com jobs@imagineeasy.com 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.
5. www.easybib.com jobs@imagineeasy.com ImagineEasy Solutions LLC We are an information literacy company. What is information literacy?
6. www.easybib.com jobs@imagineeasy.com Commercial break Some rights reserved by claire.whitehouse http://www.flickr.com/photos/citysnidget/
7. www.easybib.com jobs@imagineeasy.com 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.
8. www.easybib.com jobs@imagineeasy.com 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.
9. www.easybib.com jobs@imagineeasy.com Anyway There is more, but that’s not what I’m here for.
10. www.easybib.com jobs@imagineeasy.com Remote Work • How many people do remote work? • Are you remote, or is your client remote?
11. www.easybib.com jobs@imagineeasy.com Opinions • People have lots of opinions about remote work. • (People think) Marissa Mayer hates remote work.
12. www.easybib.com jobs@imagineeasy.com Am I capable? • How do I motivate myself in the morning? • Can I work towards a healthy schedule? • Can I communicate?
13. www.easybib.com jobs@imagineeasy.com 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/
14. jobs@imagineeasy.com Communication is easy.
15. Except that it isn’t, really. >:(
16. www.easybib.com jobs@imagineeasy.com Facts • Everybody is different. • Team building is hard. • Work asynchronously.
17. www.easybib.com jobs@imagineeasy.com Tooling • Skype, VOIP, Jabber and Google Hangouts. • Google Drive and Dropbox to collaborate. • Github. • Servers in the cloud™.
18. All good?
19. All good? Some rights reserved by Tattooed JJ http://www.flickr.com/photos/tattoodjay/
20. www.easybib.com jobs@imagineeasy.com How does it work? • More or less. • A constant process of improving.
21. www.easybib.com jobs@imagineeasy.com Make it work • It’s a good idea to see people. • Be responsive!
22. www.easybib.com jobs@imagineeasy.com 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.
23. www.easybib.com jobs@imagineeasy.com Developer • Setup your work place. • Work-life-balance. • Be honest to yourself.
24. www.easybib.com jobs@imagineeasy.com It’s that easy.
25. www.easybib.com jobs@imagineeasy.com By the way — we’re hiring!
26. www.easybib.com jobs@imagineeasy.com Questions?