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Remote & Distributed
teams
by
Mohammad Fouad
Outsourcing
Offshore
Nearshore – Same Country
Telecommuting
Distributed
two-branches, one team, same project
Virtual, Remote, Distributed
image from: http://webanywhere.co.uk/
Two thirds of the workforce
want to work from home
36% would choose working from home
over a pay raise or over a 10% pay cut
80% increase in remote employees from 2005 to
2012 in US only
Benefits of Distributed Teams?
Access to a larger pool of talent and experts
Advice
Hire people you trust, then trust them
They power on their PC after 5-mins of waking up
Have higher productivity, 13% performance increase
More prone to burn-out. Most companies report that
they faced problems with overwork
It is about People, not technology
Good Communicators, social, Love teaching, and sharing
Self Driven – will focus on results, need less monitoring
Tech Savvy – will like the remote tools
Keep the team small
(3-5 max)
Kill Email
Hold a monthly meeting!!!!
Who Does it?
50%-100% Distributed & Remote
20%-50% Distributed
Automattic
Buffer
Harvest
Plex
Zapier
Olark
Parse.ly
LivingSocial
BuySellAds
MarkIT.eu
DuckDuckGo
Patients Know
Better
Beutler Ink
YourSports
Mokriya
Fortumo
Toggl
Planet OS
Product Hunt
3DprinterOS
Taxify.eu
Teleport
Baremetrics
Vinted
BetterDoctor
HappyBits
Quipper
AdEspresso
Urgently
Metamaterial
Technologies Inc.
Human
Divshot
BacklotCars
Mugil
Shopify
Twilio
ZeroTurnaround
Pipedrive
Triposo
Azumio
Futurelytics
Hackevents
Funding Gates
Nomad List
37Coins
Medko
Founder Centric
Monitae
GuardTime
Vertico
MyOnlineSchool
Spotify
Transferwise
RealEyes
Bugcrowd
Traity
NodeSWAT
ElevenYellow
Testlio
Assembly
Tangiblee
Hitlist
Cuddli
Band Industries
AirCourts
Sqwiggle
Grasswire
Make Works
GrabCAD
GuardTime
Funnely
Smart Car Solutions OÜ
Edfa3ly
Owsy
Erply
Fleep
RecruitLoop
Antavo
Import2
DRONAMICS
Moondo
Peach
myTips
Deekit
Silo
Setting
Molimur
Moo.do
Soundcloud
AltSchool
Codeship
LogMeIn
Konveen
GitHub
Time Doctor
Prezi
Ustream
Basecamp
Userbin
Stack Exchange
Upworthy
TaxJar
KissMetrics
GigaOM
SourceFabric
TopTal
Treehouse
ZenCash
Zerply
Who doesn’t do it anymore?
Remote work will not solve your problems
It will just make them worse
Who does it?
Young companies, Startups
SaaS, Web Centric
Product Centric
only 3 in Egypt!
Obstacles in Egypt?
• Lack of Senior Developers (10+ years)
• Legal issues
• Tax issues
• Infrastructure stability
• Outsourcing destination rank for Cairo dropped from #14 to
#76
• Culture
Egypt Culture?
•‫البيت‬ ‫من‬ ‫بشتغل‬ ‫عمى‬ ‫يا‬ ‫أنا‬
•‫مدفعتش‬ ‫علشان‬ ‫الوصلة‬ ‫فصل‬ ‫كافيه‬ ‫النت‬ ‫بتاع‬ ‫أصل‬ ‫معلش‬
•‫الميكروفون‬ ‫فى‬ ‫حبيبى‬ ‫يا‬ ‫عمو‬ ‫على‬ ‫سلم‬
•‫االشتراك‬ ‫ادفع‬ ‫ورحت‬ ‫فصل‬ ‫النت‬ ‫علشان‬ ‫اتأخرت‬ ‫معلش‬
•‫سامعنى؟‬ ‫انت‬
•‫فرح‬ ‫عندى‬ ‫جرجيروبعدين‬ ‫اشترى‬ ‫نازل‬ ‫انا‬.
•‫هرجع‬ ‫و‬ ‫ساعة‬ ‫نص‬.
•‫مرسى؟‬ ‫يا‬ ‫ده‬ ‫انجليزى‬
Tools!
Daily Standups
HeyFlock
I Done This
one-to-ones
16 popular coworking spaces in the Arab world
Sign me up!
Thank You
Twitter: @_fouad

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