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On Tuesday I hosted a @ondeck #ODCC1 community session about 'Remote Company Building'
Topics:
Guiding Principles
Use Cases
Tools
This thread is a walk through the presentation
Topics:
Guiding Principles Use Cases ToolsThis thread is a walk through the presentation
Our company - Perengo Inc - was remote from day 1.
Founders in Bay Area & D.C.
Team in Germany and Poland
Time difference of 9 hours
Grew team from 0 to 15 employees.
Post-acquisition (2019) remained remote as separate business unit and doubled headcount.
Founders in Bay Area & D.C.
Team in Germany and Poland
Time difference of 9 hoursGrew team from 0 to 15 employees.
Post-acquisition (2019) remained remote as separate business unit and doubled headcount.
Most important principle of remote management:
Optimize for Single-Player Mode 
> Provide direction for your team
> Give access to necessary tools and info
> Enable your team to get work done on their own
h/t @andreasklinger for popularizing this idea
Optimize for Single-Player Mode > Provide direction for your team
> Give access to necessary tools and info
> Enable your team to get work done on their own
h/t @andreasklinger for popularizing this idea
Businesses can be analyzed across 2 dimensions
1) Location: Co-located vs. Distributed
2) Synchronicity of Work: Synchronous vs. Asynchronous
Remote first
orgs are usually distributed + async
h/t @leonardofed
1) Location: Co-located vs. Distributed
2) Synchronicity of Work: Synchronous vs. Asynchronous
Remote first
orgs are usually distributed + asynch/t @leonardofed
No need to reinvent the wheel.
Learn from the best:
@gitlab - Best employee handbook in the game
@buffer - Best org transparency via blog
@zapier - Best guide to remote work
Also, follow @darrenmurph @chris_herd @andreasklinger
Learn from the best:
@gitlab - Best employee handbook in the game
@buffer - Best org transparency via blog
@zapier - Best guide to remote work
Also, follow @darrenmurph @chris_herd @andreasklinger
Our guiding principles:
C.S.I.
A.C.D.C.
R.O.S.A.
Detailed description in the image
C.S.I. A.C.D.C. R.O.S.A.Detailed description in the image
Communication is the life blood of any organization
View through OODA Loop:
Observe: Metrics; Sales
Orient: MKTG
Decide: Management
Act: Product; Sales
If information is siloed, you cannot go through the adaptation cycles as a collective org.
Follow @commandodev
View through OODA Loop:
Observe: Metrics; Sales Orient: MKTG Decide: Management Act: Product; SalesIf information is siloed, you cannot go through the adaptation cycles as a collective org.
Follow @commandodev
Different types of communication require different channels
Think of comms along 2 dimensions:
Reach: 1 vs. N
Context: Sync (= immediate feedback needed) vs. Async (= self-paced)
* Transactional > Slack
* Evergreen (solid-state) > Wiki; Notion
Think of comms along 2 dimensions:
Reach: 1 vs. N Context: Sync (= immediate feedback needed) vs. Async (= self-paced)* Transactional > Slack
* Evergreen (solid-state) > Wiki; Notion
Build your comms culture deliberately
To 'optimize for single player mode' we reduced meetings to a minimum.
The only all-hands meeting was a bi-weekly sync.
Self-org syncs between collaborators and within teams.
Other information relayed via written async comms.
To 'optimize for single player mode' we reduced meetings to a minimum.
The only all-hands meeting was a bi-weekly sync.
Self-org syncs between collaborators and within teams.
Other information relayed via written async comms.
I have written in more detail about our business-specific workflows in this blog post https://www.artlapinsch.com/remote-lessons/
https://www.artlapinsch.com/remote-lessons/
I have written in more detail about communication for remote companies in this blog post (Part 1 of a series of posts) https://www.artlapinsch.com/remote-communication-ooda/
(Part 1 of a series of posts) https://www.artlapinsch.com/remote-communication-ooda/
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