Leading a Distributed Team of Introverts

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1. Kyle Neath
10. U N C O M F O R T A B L E
11. Leadership What does it mean to be a leader?
12. Leaders design organizations
13. Good People, Good Systems.
14. How do design decisions get made? Design leadership:
15. Status Updates
19. Email → Issues Visible to everyone.
20. Design → Systems What is going to fail in the next 6-12 mon?
21. Shipping? → Radar Reverse TPS reports (onus on leader)
22. Product Health Check Last month’s ships Problems & opportunities Internal concerns Question / challenge
23. Why do I like radar threads? Time zone independent Encourages contemplation / reflection Links! Evidence! (understand the system) Important topics resurface
24. How do design decisions get made? Design leadership:
25. Instilling Taste
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
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
28. https://api.github.com/zen
29. https://api.github.com/octocat
30. How do design decisions get made? Design leadership:
31. Titles
32. Employee 2009
33. Employee Director of Design 2009 2011
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.
35. Employee Director of Design Employee 2009 2011 2012
37. ! ! 2 people 1 relationship
38. ! ! 3 people 3 relationships !
39. 4 people 6 relationships ! ! ! !
40. ! ! 4 people 6 relationships ! !
41. R = N ⨯ (N - 1) / 2 ! ! ! !
42. 1, 3, 6, 10, 15, 21, 28, 36, 45… ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! R = N ⨯ (N - 1) / 2
43. 150 - 250 people Dunbar’s Number
44. 11,000 - 30,000 relationships Dunbar’s Number
45. "
46. Titles are a map of your organization
47. Employee Director of Design Employee Product Leader 2009 2011 2012 2014
48. Employee Director of Design Employee Product Leader VP of Product 2009 2011 2012 2014
49. VP of Kyle Neath Late 2014
50. Not everyone is an extrovert (in fact, kind of a lot of us aren’t)
51. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking Susan Cain