Working distributed

Working distributed Alexander Reelsen alex@elastic.co @spinscale

Office?

Open Plan Office?

Co-Working?

Home-Office?

Home Office once per week?

Company w/ single location?

Company w/ several locations?

Company across timezones?

How much time do you spent commuting?

elastic stack

Elastic Stack as a Service

solutions

Wikipedia

Github

Docker

NASA

Slack

Autoscout24

Xing

support

consulting

training

certification

2012

1500 employees

19 offices

35 countries

30 languages

19 timezones

distributed

scalable

How do you work together? … culture, tools, processes

culture

trust

intrinsic motivation

extrinsic help

equipment

16 weeks paid parental leave

timezones

asynchronous discussions

communication

slack

github

email

salesforce

discourse

zoom

transparency

communication overflow

weekly email updates

monthly department updates

monthly all hands

isolation

x-school

mentoring

always on

bi-yearly in person meetings

conferences

trainings

Development process

no scrum

no kanban

no waterfall

time based releases

product roadmap

team per product

Elasticsearch Team Tech Lead Tech Lead Team Lead Product Manager Product Manager Team Lead Area Area Area Area Lead Lead Lead Lead Devs Devs Devs Devs

STACK LEAD Elasticsearch Ingest Kibana … Clients

(cross) team work

test triage

fixit friday

weekly release status

bugpool

support dev ramp

support dev help

Personal tidbits

home office is a drug

less sick days

holidays are sacred

un-bus-factor

video first

flexibility

hobbies

Summary

it’s all about the infrastructure

hiring pool

commuting

experience

satellite employees

employees are adults!

management must lead

Discussion … ask all the things! https://speakerdeck.com/spinscale/working-distributed-but-how

Links https://www.elastic.co/community/all-things-code https://www.elastic.co/about/our-source-code https://www.elastic.co/products/x-pack/open https://spinscale.de/posts/2018-05-08-five-years-homeoffice.html

Discussion … ask all the things! https://speakerdeck.com/spinscale/working-distributed-but-how