Scaling Distributed Teams
summary
Elastic runs as a >2,000 person work from anywhere company and shares concrete practices that scale: xcool batch onboarding with in‑person week in Mountain View, weekly status emails and a public development constitution on GitHub, tri‑lead product teams (tech team product), and a strict release train every two months that merges ready features and unblocks others. Management targets sit around managers for five to ten people and focus on written async processes.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:38+2000 Elasticians
- 3:15Trusted Adults
- 4:11Result Time
- 5:06Async Sync
- 6:38Write Tell
- 7:43Communicate Intentionally
- 9:03Onboarding X-School
- 9:58In-Person Global All Hands
- 14:14(Bi) Weekly, Quarterly
- 15:105 – 10 People
- 16:40Development Constitution development constitution.md
- 17:20Leads Team Tech Product
- 18:11Responsibility
- 19:38Constant
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