Working distributed

A presentation at Search Meetup Hamburg in August 2019 in Hamburg, Germany by Alexander Reelsen

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Working distributed Alexander Reelsen alex@elastic.co @spinscale

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Office?

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Open Plan Office?

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Co-Working?

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Home-Office?

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Home Office once per week?

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Company w/ single location?

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Company w/ several locations?

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Company across timezones?

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How much time do you spent commuting?

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elastic stack

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Elastic Stack as a Service

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solutions

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Wikipedia

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Github

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Docker

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NASA

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Slack

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Autoscout24

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Xing

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support

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consulting

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training

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certification

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2012

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1500 employees

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19 offices

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35 countries

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30 languages

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19 timezones

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distributed

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scalable

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scalable

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

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culture

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trust

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intrinsic motivation

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extrinsic help

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equipment

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16 weeks paid parental leave

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timezones

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asynchronous discussions

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communication

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slack

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github

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email

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salesforce

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discourse

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zoom

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transparency

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transparency

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communication overflow

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weekly email updates

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monthly department updates

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monthly all hands

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isolation

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x-school

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mentoring

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always on

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bi-yearly in person meetings

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conferences

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trainings

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Development process

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no scrum

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no kanban

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no waterfall

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time based releases

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product roadmap

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team per product

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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

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STACK LEAD Elasticsearch Ingest Kibana … Clients

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(cross) team work

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test triage

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fixit friday

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weekly release status

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bugpool

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support dev ramp

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support dev help

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Personal tidbits

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home office is a drug

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less sick days

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holidays are sacred

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un-bus-factor

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video first

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flexibility

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hobbies

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Summary

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it’s all about the infrastructure

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hiring pool

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commuting

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experience

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satellite employees

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employees are adults!

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management must lead

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

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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

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