How to Build an Inclusive Distributed Team • Adam Schuck • YOW! 2018
This presentation was recorded at YOW! 2018. #GOTOcon #YOW
Adam Schuck - Senior Engineering Director at Canva @adamschuck3376
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ORIGINAL TALK TITLE
“You’re the One with the Accent“: How to Build an Inclusive Distributed Team
ABSTRACT
Building a distributed team is hard. As you hire engineers in other locations, processes that used to work start to fall down: alignment suffers, code reviews slow down, teams start to block on decisions, and the only person who knows how to fix the bug is currently asleep!
Of course, there’s a better way. To make a distributed team successful requires commitment and thoughtfulness. Changes in behaviour are required by all parties, not just those outside HQ, i.e. those “with the accent“.
In this talk, I will share experiences from being Google Australia’s first engineering hire, cofounding Twitter’s NYC engineering office, lessons learned building a distributed team at my previous startup, Lexy, and early insights from Canva’s approach to global teams. I will discuss strategies to empower and include your distributed team, from communication style to engineering process to hiring. [...]
RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies •
Michael Jackson • Software Requirements and Specifications •
Geoffrey West • Scale •
Donald G. Reinertsen • The Principles of Product Development Flow •
Kevlin Henney • 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know •
#DistributedTeams #AdamSchuck #Inclusive #Inclusivity #Diversity #SoftwareEngineering #Programming #Communication #YOWcon
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