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Mathias Meyer
June 09, 2017
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Building and Scaling an Distributed and Inclusive Team
A talk I gave at The Lead Developer UK 2017.
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June 09, 2017
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Travis CI travis-ci.com Mathias Meyer, CEO @roidrage Building and Scaling
a Distributed and Inclusive Team
@roidrage
@roidrage !
@roidrage !"#$%&'( 40 Builders 9 Native Languages !)*#$+,-.
@roidrage 15 Home Countries !")/*#$& ,-.0'(1
@roidrage ~50% Remote
@roidrage • Large Customer Base in US • Increasing Diversity
Push for Remote
@roidrage “Distributed teams increase the chances of diversity due to
having people from different cultures and backgrounds.” Travis CI Team
@roidrage Jan Lehnardt <include> <div></div> </include>
@roidrage *Jan Lehnardt <include> <async/> <div></div> </include>
@roidrage Communication Culture
@roidrage Communication Culture
@roidrage
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@roidrage ChatOps
@roidrage #incident-response
@roidrage
@roidrage
@roidrage
@roidrage
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@roidrage GitHub Issues Create Visibility
@roidrage how-we-work
@roidrage Continuous Integration for Company Culture
@roidrage
@roidrage
@roidrage Inclusive Decision Making
@roidrage Distributed Teams Incur a Tax on Communication
@roidrage David Marquet: Turn The Ship Around “Don’t move information
to authority, move authority to the information.”
@roidrage “Less oral communication means more accidental documentation.” Travis CI
Team
@roidrage
@roidrage Distributed Facetime
@roidrage
@roidrage Continuous Improvement Talks
@roidrage
@roidrage A Distributed Team’s Biggest Challenge: Inclusive Communication
@roidrage Communication Culture
@roidrage Engineering Culture
@roidrage
@roidrage Blameless Culture
@roidrage Blameless Culture = Learning Culture
@roidrage Engineers Work Customer Support
@roidrage Different Cultures
@roidrage
@roidrage
@roidrage • Good • Great • Needs Improvement "
@roidrage • Great • Good • Needs Improvement • Okay
• Nope !
@roidrage Europameisterschaftsqualifikationsrunde
@roidrage English is Ambiguous
@roidrage
@roidrage Tone and Nuance Get Lost in Writing
@roidrage Travis CI Team “Never attribute to malice or stupidity
that which is adequately explained by a missing perspective.”
@roidrage YMMV
Travis CI travis-ci.com Mathias Meyer, CEO @roidrage Thank you!