This document discusses extremely distributed software development and challenges that can arise. It notes that traditional software development projects often experience chaos and delays. Some challenges mentioned include lazy managers, overtime causing stress, difficulties with team members ramping up and learning remotely, challenges with remote meetings replacing face-to-face interactions, and ensuring developers are paid based on results rather than hours worked. The document promotes an approach of distributed teams of 250 developers contributing over 300,000 lines of code across 25+ projects.

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eXtremely Distributed
Software Development
Yegor Bugayenko
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“Software development
projects are in chaos”
—Chaos Report (2015)
by Standish Group
7%

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1: Team Work
lazy managers
rules
ABC
architect
remote

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2: Overtime
stress
3-4 h/day
voluntarily
deadlines
managers

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3: Learning
ramp up
rotate
experts artifacts
blame us

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4: Meetings
face-to-face
diagrams
documents
Slack
Skype
code

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5: Salaries
results
contracts
loyalty
money
soft skills

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300K+ LoC
250 devs
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25+ projects