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Ride the Lightning: Distributed Teamwork
Automattic is a 100% distributed company with 514 staff in 52 countries. It was established in 2005 and is headquartered in San Francisco. Automattic uses various online tools like Slack, GitHub, and internal blogs to facilitate collaboration between remote teams. The company has found success with a distributed model due to its open source roots, emphasis on asynchronous communication, and hiring process that evaluates candidates' ability to work remotely. Looking ahead, the presenter argues more jobs will be automated, collaborative, and allow self-driven work arrangements like remote work. Participants are encouraged to try distributed work through an open source project or applying to Automattic.
Ride the Lightning: Distributed Teamwork
- 1. Ride the Lightningvol. 25 Distributed Teamwork Try It Now! Future of Work Naoko Takano / Automattic December 8, 2016 @ AQ Tokyo
- 2. @naokomc en.naoko.cc Naoko Takano 高野直子 Automattic Globalizer, TeamGlobal (Localization project mgt) WordPress.org Polyglots/Community Contributor (Translation & event organization)
- 3. Established: August 2005 HQ:San Francisco, USA 100% Distributed (“Remote”)
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- 9. WordPress powers 27%of the Web and covers 58% of CMS Market share + http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management/all http://trends.builtwith.com/cms
- 10. 514 staff in52 countries
- 11. Automattic Lounge • InSan Francisco • Anyone can drop-in • Nobody commutes every day
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- 14. San Francisco, 2006 Firstcompany-wide meetup
- 15. Quebec, 2009 First companymeetup I attended
- 16. Whistler, 2016 Most recentcompany meetup
- 17. 100% flat No hierarchy,just teams 2009 2016 ↓
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- 20. IRC Mostly SVN +Trac 1 “P2” blog Skype (1:1) Search across P2/IRC Not much email
- 21. 415 “P2” blogs Slack Github> SVN + Trac Zoom (team video chat) Skype (1:1) Search across P2/Slack/Code/ Support Tickets/Docs Still not much email
- 23. Example of P2 (NotAutomattic. make.wordpress.org/design )
- 24. 105 teams 198 projects 77“watercoolers” Active P2s 402,785 posts, 1,229,930 comments, and 89,765,415 words across 415 P2s
- 25. Why It's Workingfor Us
- 26. Open Source DNA Transparency,autonomy, shared goal & passion https://www.flickr.com/photos/whiteafrican/2570514012
- 27. 100% Distributed Asynchronous communicationis default https://www.flickr.com/photos/uclmaps/15051460475
- 28. Trial Period Hire onlythose who can work effectively in this environment https://officetoday.wordpress.com/2016/08/23/london-ontario-canada/
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- 30. More automation Business tools,CMS, AI… https://www.flickr.com/photos/gastev/2174504149
- 31. More collaboration Across locations,cultures, and languages
- 32. More self-driven Choose where/when/ howyou work https://www.flickr.com/photos/footfun/3838719190
- 33. Future of Work …You can try it now.
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- 35. Or join Automattic?:) https://automattic.com/work-with-us/
- 36. ‣ How Ifell into the rabbit hole: life and work at the distributed wonderland. https://luca.blog/2014/10/14/how-i-fell-into-the-rabbit-hole-life-and-work-at-the-distributed-wonderland/ ‣ Hire by Auditions, Not Resumes http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/01/hire-by-auditions-not-resumes/ ‣ This pioneering tech company figured how to make work-from-home work http://qz.com/694410/automattic-has-figured-out-the-right-tools-for-remote-working/ ‣ Make WordPress https://make.wordpress.org/ Resources: