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DISTRIBUTEDreinventing the workplace
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$ whoami
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Yoav Farhi
Developer
blog.yoavfarhi.com
@yoavf
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$ pwd
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(geocoding fail)
• 143 employees
• 27 countries (Israel: 2)
• No offices*
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What it’s likeWork / Development
CommunicationsHiring / Onboarding
Being Social
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9-5
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Happy
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Let’s get to work
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Team Structure
Designed to be able to iterate quickly without any barriers, blockers, or sign-offs
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Team Structure
• 4-7 person team size, mostly devs• A designer• Support, business, or marketing
person as needed• Team lead included
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A 6 month roadmap that articulates long
term goals and smaller two-to-four weeks steps to get there
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Each team choses its own methods and tools
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Build itGet it out there
Iterate
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$ deploy
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~30 seconds
2000 servers
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~30 seconds
2000 servers
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In 2012
Deployed new code every 26 minutes on average
(just WordPress.com)
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Async
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Open
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Simple
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(bad) email
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Meetings
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IRC
• Continuous chat, your presence is required - this is “coming to work”
• Lots of channels, plenty of bots (logging, error reporting, tools, etc)
• Logged, easily searchable and referenced
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P2
• Hybrid blog/forum/micro-blogging
• We use it for everything - teams, projects, social
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consumption• Web
• Email (read/write)
• Jabber (read/write)
• IRC
• Mobile
• Search
• ...
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Similar commercial software
• Yammer
• Hall
• Socialcast
• Jive
• daPulse
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MISC
P270%
IRC25%
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Not for everybody :(
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The process
• Initial screening: CV, prior open source work, interview
• Code test
• (Paid) Trial project
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We see how you work
You see how we work
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Be social?
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Stinton Beach, 2007San Francisco, 2006
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Stinton Beach, 2007
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Oracle, 2008
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Breckenridge, 2008
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Quebec, 2009
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Seaside, 2010
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Budapest, 2011
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San Diego, 2012
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Team VIP, Las Vegas 2013
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Team VIP, Las Vegas 2013
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The future is already here — it's just not very
evenly distributed.
William Gibson
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questions ?
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Yes, of course we’re hiring :)
automattic.com/work-with-us