how to run hyper distributed companies
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Rich Paret / Director of Engineering at Twitter
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Project Tracking for Distributed Companies
🌌 Hiring
• Great at (async) communication
• GitHub, StackOverflow, mailing lists
• Articles, Quora, FB Groups
• Speaking at meetups, conferences
⛺ Infrastructure
• Connectivity everywhere
• VPN & 2-factor-auth
• Co-working spaces
• Notifications
🚞 Operations
• Objectives & key results (OKRs)
• Channel for blockers & questions
• More with fewer parts / people
• Automation & monitoring
🍴 Tools
• Automate (dev) environment, building, hosting, testing
• Pair using Slack / Screenhero
• Code reviews & design reviews
• Try new things