Presentation I gave at the University of Porto, during their ENEI conference.

1. Job van der Voort
VP Product at GitLab
Building GitLab
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4. 2011
Dimitriy Zaporozhets
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5. 2014
5 people
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6. today
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7. $45 million in funding
Google Ventures, Michael Dell, Ashton Kutcher and others
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8. >100k companies
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9. Independent review:
Best CI product
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10. 262 people
(and about 70 pets)
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11. there are two things special about GitLab..
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13. First thing that is special
zero offices
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14. Second thing that is special
everything is open
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15. Today I'll tell you why
+ how we get stuff done
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17. Zero offices
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18. How do most people work today?
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19. How do most people work live today?
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20. Remote only
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21. We can hire the best people
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22. ~36 countries
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24. How we get stuff done
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25. You can't tap on someone's
shoulder if they are on the other
side of the planet
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26. GitLab comes in two distributions
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27. Community Edition
gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce
MIT Expat license
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28. Enterprise Edition
gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee
Proprietary
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31. All code, issues and plans are public
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32. ..meaning anyone can contribute,
even to our proprietary product.
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33. The contribution process is
identical for everyone,
employee or not
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34. GitLab has over 1900 contributors
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35. We realized that being open is
incredibly powerful
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36. So we open sourced the rest of our
company
(everything is open)
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37. about.gitlab.com/handbook
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38. Want to know how we make
product decisions?
about.gitlab.com/handbook/product
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39. Want to see our vacation policy?
about.gitlab.com/handbook/paid-time-off
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40. Want to see our hiring policies?
about.gitlab.com/handbook/hiring
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41. Want to know how much you'll earn
as developer?
about.gitlab.com/roles/engineering/developer
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42. Everything we reasonably and
legally can be open about, we make
public
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43. It has meant that the community
has contributed to our company
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44. and others have taken our ideas
and built their own companies on it
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46. Hold on, how do you actually get work done?
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47. There are four things that make this
possible
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48. 1. We work asynchronously
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49. 1. Working asynchronously
Write everything down
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50. 1. Working asynchronously
Establish a single source of truth
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51. 1. Working asynchronously
Don't wait for consensus
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52. 2. Everyone contributes
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53. 2. Everyone contributes
Every single person at GitLab
makes changes to everything
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54. 2. Everyone contributes
Commits activity of our Chief Revenue
Officer (sales)
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55. 3. Freedom to live a better life
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56. 3. Freedom to live a better life
Unlimited vacation
no log is kept of days off
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57. 3. Freedom to live a better life
No set hours, required hours or
tracking of hours
We only look at how well you do your job
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58. 4. We spend a lot of time bonding
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59. 4. Bonding
Daily team call
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60. 4. Bonding
Summits
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61. 4. Bonding
Travel to meet colleagues
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62. Summary
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68. Questions?More about remote working: RemoteWorkPodcast.com
Slides + info: jobvandervoort.com
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70. Bonus slides
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71. Minimally Viable Change
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72. Conversational Development
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73. Questions?More about remote working: RemoteWorkPodcast.com
Slides + info: jobvandervoort.com
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