Distributed: Reinventing the Workplace
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A company without offices? Employees from all around the world? Working without pants? This surely must be The Future, and Automattic - the company behind WordPress.com - has been living it since 2005. Learn how more than 140 employees from over 27 countries collaborate to make the web a better place. This talk was given at the Reversim Summit in February 2013, and covered communication tools and methods, hiring and onboarding process, continuous deployment, and the general awesomeness of the distributed company. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH7foZ2WiwY CC-BY-NC
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DISTRIBUTEDreinventing the workplace
$ whoami
Yoav Farhi
Developer
blog.yoavfarhi.com
@yoavf
$ pwd
(geocoding fail)
• 143 employees
• 27 countries (Israel: 2)
• No offices*
cc by-sa opensourcewayhttp://flic.kr/p/aZbzuH
What it’s likeWork / Development
CommunicationsHiring / Onboarding
Being Social
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9-5
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cc by-nc-sa Pandiyanhttp://flic.kr/p/7sGu7Z
Happy
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Let’s get to work
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Team Structure
Designed to be able to iterate quickly without any barriers, blockers, or sign-offs
Team Structure
• 4-7 person team size, mostly devs• A designer• Support, business, or marketing
person as needed• Team lead included
A 6 month roadmap that articulates long
term goals and smaller two-to-four weeks steps to get there
Each team choses its own methods and tools
Build itGet it out there
Iterate
$ deploy
~30 seconds
2000 servers
~30 seconds
2000 servers
In 2012
Deployed new code every 26 minutes on average
(just WordPress.com)
Async
Open
Simple
(bad) email
Meetings
IRC
• Continuous chat, your presence is required - this is “coming to work”
• Lots of channels, plenty of bots (logging, error reporting, tools, etc)
• Logged, easily searchable and referenced
P2
• Hybrid blog/forum/micro-blogging
• We use it for everything - teams, projects, social
consumption• Web
• Email (read/write)
• Jabber (read/write)
• IRC
• Mobile
• Search
• ...
Similar commercial software
• Yammer
• Hall
• Socialcast
• Jive
• daPulse
MISC
P270%
IRC25%
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cc-by thatsabigifhttp://yoav.fr/world
Not for everybody :(
The process
• Initial screening: CV, prior open source work, interview
• Code test
• (Paid) Trial project
We see how you work
You see how we work
Be social?
Stinton Beach, 2007San Francisco, 2006
Stinton Beach, 2007
Oracle, 2008
Breckenridge, 2008
Quebec, 2009
Seaside, 2010
Budapest, 2011
San Diego, 2012
Team VIP, Las Vegas 2013
Team VIP, Las Vegas 2013
The future is already here — it's just not very
evenly distributed.
William Gibson
questions ?
Yes, of course we’re hiring :)
automattic.com/work-with-us
