Building & Scaling Distributed Teams
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Experience grows three distributed teams into about two dozen people across 10 cities, three countries, six time zones and four offices, showing concrete practices that work: every meeting is a video conference, invest in headsets, ceiling mics, echo-damped rooms and reimbursed home-office monitors and internet, make docs, issue trackers and recordings the canonical source, hire or onboard for distributed experience, schedule quarterly in-person meetups for relationship building, and adopt remote first means in person last plus distributed leadership across locations.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Distributed teams overview
- 1:07Building successful distributed teams
- 2:53Physical and digital environments
- 6:06First distributed team challenges
- 8:15Remote-first communication rules
- 12:52Remote first means in-person last
- 15:21Hiring for distributed teams
- 17:46Documentation and communication
- 19:54Peer one-on-ones and trust
- 23:09Expanding to a second team
- 26:20Time zone differences impact
- 27:23Distributed leadership strategy
- 30:37Quarterly in-person meetups
- 32:42Virtual water-cooler talk
- 36:15Key to success
