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Distributed Companies: A WordPress.com Team Perspective
- DISTRIBUTED COMPANIES A WORDPRESS.COM TEAM PERSPECTIVE Davide ‘Folletto’ Casali
- Manifesto Ibridi F E L L O W UX REDIRECTOR NIGHT.EU ADVISOR
- @Folletto
- CODENAME CALYPSO PROLOGUE
- WHAT IS CALYPSO? Next generation WordPress.com
- 127 Contributors 26,030 Commits 6,915 Reviews March 2014 → November 2015 (20 months)
- ?How did you do that in a fully distributed company?
- Story of a Showcase
- HYPERION BLASTING AT THEME UX WITH THE FIRE OF 1,000 SUNS
- MEET HYPERION
- THE PROBLEM PART I
- Themes
- v2.0
- THX
- v4.0v4.0
- 3 DESIGNS PAINFUL FOR USERS 3 CODEBASES MAINTENANCE HELL
- Create one single Theme Showcase for WordPress.com
- PLANNING PART II
- VIENNA MEETUP 14 April 2015
- Pains Goals
- The Milestone·1 Model Only user-facing features One major feature Many smaller details & fixes
- “ ” Steve Seear, Hyperion I found this session really valuable. It was intense, challenging, and led on to a lot more discussions.
- “ ” Miguel Fonseca, Hyperion +1000 on the value and ROI of our meetup exercises.
- INITIAL ROADMAP POSTED ON P2
- MILESTONE 1 ‘MINIMAL’ PART III
- MASTER THREAD POSTED ON TEAM P2
- DESIGN ITERATION 1 POSTED ON P2
- 1125
- DESIGN ITERATION 2 POSTED ON P2
- 1015
- DESIGN ITERATION 3 POSTED ON P2
- May 20, 2015
- 928
- 4 features added JUNE 5
- Live for Automatticians inTest Environment JUNE 5
- M4 Purchases M1 Minimal
- UPDATED ROADMAP EDITED ON P2
- DESIGN ITERATION 4 DISCUSSED LIVE ON SLACK
- DESIGN ITERATION 5 POSTED ON P2
- June 11, 2015
- 161 That is one lovely blueprint! Very nice.
- 5 features added JUNE 11 JUNE 17 JUNE 24 JULY 1 JULY 15
- Horizon External Testing JULY 21JULY 15 Automattic Internal Testing
- M1 LAUNCHED 3 August 2015
- THEME SHOWCASE M1 THE PROCESS IN NUMBERS 5 Design Iterations 11 Horizon Testers 6 Automattic Testers 100+ Feedbacks & Comments 124 GitHub Tickets 85 GitHub Pull Requests
- THEME SHOWCASE M1 TIMELINE LIVE ~3.5 months Meetup 4 days
- THEME SHOWCASE M1 SALES CHECK
- June 23, 2015 July 3, 2015
- PRINCIPLES PART IV
- THE REMOTENESS CONTINUUM Distributed 100% Local 100% Remote in between
- A SEPARATE FLOOR OFFICE CITY COUNTRY MAKES THE COMPANY ALREADY REMOTE
- CULTURE
- Transparency share everything, share early
- Initiative individual leads, teams autonomy
- Communication is oxygen
- SUPPORT
- Meetups build trust and give a face to text
- Everything as Remote behave as remote even if you’re not
- Watercooler Spaces sociality vs efficiency, do both
- TOOLS
- Realtime speed one-to-one, you must be there
- Async speed one-to-few, you will be there
- Stable speed one-to-many, you are not there
- Slack P2 WordPress Wiki WordPress
- WORK & COLLABORATION EXIST BEYOND PROCESSES
- SUPPORT TOOLS Transparency Initiative Communication Meetups Everything as Remote Watercooler Spaces Realtime speed Async speed Stable speed CULTURE Distributed 100% Local 100% Remote in between
- “ ” Bruno Munari To complicate is easy, to simplify is hard. To complicate, just add, everyone is able to complicate. Few are able to simplify.
- Thanks. @Folletto INTENSEMINIMALISM.COM
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