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Leading a Distributed Team of Introverts

Kyle Neath
September 09, 2014

Leading a Distributed Team of Introverts

Kyle Neath

September 09, 2014
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  1. Kyle Neath

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  10. U N C O M F O R T A B L E

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  11. Leadership
    What does it mean to be a leader?

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  12. Leaders design organizations

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  13. Good People, Good Systems.

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  14. How do design decisions get
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    Design leadership:

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  15. Status Updates

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  19. Email → Issues
    Visible to everyone.

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  20. Design → Systems
    What is going to fail in the next 6-12 mon?

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  21. Shipping? → Radar
    Reverse TPS reports (onus on leader)

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  22. Product Health Check
    Last month’s ships
    Problems & opportunities
    Internal concerns
    Question / challenge

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  23. Why do I like radar threads?
    Time zone independent
    Encourages contemplation / reflection
    Links! Evidence! (understand the system)
    Important topics resurface

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  24. How do design decisions get
    made?
    Design leadership:

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  25. Instilling Taste

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  26. Beautiful is better than ugly.
    Explicit is better than implicit.
    Simple is better than complex.
    Complex is better than complicated.
    Flat is better than nested.
    Sparse is better than dense.
    Readability counts.
    Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.

    THE ZEN OF
    PYTHON

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  27. Responsive is better than fast.
    It's not fully shipped until it's fast.
    Anything added dilutes everything else.
    Practicality beats purity.
    Approachable is better than simple.
    Mind your words, they are important.
    Speak like a human.
    Half measures are as bad as nothing at all.
    Encourage flow.
    Non-blocking is better than blocking.
    Favor focus over features.
    Avoid administrative distraction.
    Design for failure.
    Keep it logically awesome.
    GITHUB
    ZEN

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  28. https://api.github.com/zen

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  29. https://api.github.com/octocat

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  30. How do design decisions get
    made?
    Design leadership:

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  31. Titles

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  32. Employee
    2009

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  33. Employee
    Director of Design
    2009
    2011

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  34. You should not expect either of these fine gentlemen to
    change what they're doing, and that's the whole point.
    They created these roles and put themselves in it. We're
    just giving it a name.

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  35. Employee
    Director of Design
    Employee
    2009
    2011
    2012

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  37. ! !
    2 people 1 relationship

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    3 people 3 relationships
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  39. 4 people 6 relationships
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    4 people 6 relationships
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  41. R = N ⨯ (N - 1) / 2
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  42. 1, 3, 6, 10, 15, 21, 28, 36, 45…
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    !
    R = N ⨯ (N - 1) / 2

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  43. 150 - 250
    people
    Dunbar’s Number

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  44. 11,000 - 30,000
    relationships
    Dunbar’s Number

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  46. Titles are a map of your
    organization

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  47. Employee
    Director of Design
    Employee
    Product Leader
    2009
    2011
    2012
    2014

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  48. Employee
    Director of Design
    Employee
    Product Leader
    VP of Product
    2009
    2011
    2012
    2014

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  49. VP of Kyle Neath
    Late 2014

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  50. Not everyone is an extrovert
    (in fact, kind of a lot of us aren’t)

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  51. Quiet: The Power of Introverts
    in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
    Susan Cain

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