Yulia Krylova, Playrix

Outsourcing vs. Insourcing: Insights to Playrix's Distributed Team

(White Nights Conference Moscow 2018)
The official conference website — http://wnconf.com

Transcript

1. Outsourcing vs. Insourcing: Insights to Playrix's distributed team Yulia Krylova Art Manager october 2018
2. ABOUT THE COMPANY 14 years #1 in the CIS top 10 in the world ▪ ▪ ▪
3. TITLES
4. TEAM 1,000+ 30% EMPLOYEES WORK REMOTELY
5. PLAYRIX GEOGRAPHY
6. HOMESCAPES TEAM Moscow Vologda Saint-Petersburg Petrozavodsk Velikiy Novgorod Ivanovo Saratov Kharkov Rostov-on-Don Kiev Kaliningrad Novosibirsk Almaty Chelyabinsk Erevan Krasnoyarsk Murmansk Yakutsk Minsk Hamburg Vladivostok Mogilyov Voronezh Volgograd Odessa Naberezhnye Chelny Riga Karaganda Yoshkar-Ola Vitebsk
7. OFFICES
8. Distributed team: how it all began...
9. Is it manageable at all?
10. CONVENTIONAL TEAM
11. OUTSOURCED TEAM
12. Distributed team challenges ▪ Information gaps and lack of communication ▪ Decision-making takes more time ▪ Different time zones ▪ Transparency and efficiency ▪ Adaptation and career growth
13. LACK OF COMMUNICATION ▪ 1:1 with managers and team leads ▪ Developing group problem solving-skills ▪ Conference calls ▪ Business trips and mini-events ▪ Channels in Slack for work and fun ▪ Online events and contests ▪ QA sessions ▪ PlayrixCON
14. Decision-making takes more time ▪ Plan accordingly ▪ Use conference calls ▪ Work in smaller teams
15. DIFFERENT TIME ZONES ▪ Everything is scheduled individually depending on the project team needs and priorities
16. Transparency and efficiency ▪ Planning and priorities ▪ Synchronization ▪ Transparent and clear task tracking system ▪ Feedback ▪ Efficiency evaluation
17. Adaptation and career growth ▪ Extensive onboard training ▪ Mentoring system ▪ Clear and consistent feedback, predictability ▪ Identifying and developing employees’ potential
18. DREAM TEAM
19. QUESTIONS?
20. THANK YOU!