Distributed Companies: A WordPress.com Team Perspective
summary
Rebuild of WordPress.com UI called Calypso is open sourced (started Mar 2014, public Nov 2015) and the Hyperion team ships a consolidated theme Showcase in 3.5 months using meetups (Vienna), prototypes (interactive PDF, Marvel), code reviews (127 contributors, ~7,000 reviews), and rollout tooling: P2 and Slack, Trello, Horizon and GitHub. Internal + 177 external testers validate the release, sales stay stable, and the incremental milestone approach proves to work.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:14What is Calypso
- 3:00How is it possible
- 4:19What were we trying to solve
- 6:06Planning
- 10:15Milestones
- 17:00Internal Release
- 18:04Launch
- 19:48Remoteness Continuum
- 21:21Culture
- 23:58Support
- 26:48Tools
- 27:50Slack
- 29:14Summary
- 31:05Questions
- 33:29Hiring Process
- 37:23Problems
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