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- 1. Ride the Lightning vol. 25 Distributed Teamwork Try It Now! Future of Work Naoko Takano / Automattic December 8, 2016 @ AQ Tokyo
- 2. @naokomc en.naoko.cc Naoko Takano 高野直子 Automattic Globalizer, Team Global (Localization project mgt) WordPress.org Polyglots/Community Contributor (Translation & event organization)
- 3. Established: August 2005 HQ: San Francisco, USA 100% Distributed (“Remote”)
- 4. …and too!
- 7. .blog Domain
- 8. hosting
- 9. WordPress powers 27% of the Web and covers 58% of CMS Market share + http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management/all http://trends.builtwith.com/cms
- 10. 514 staff in 52 countries
- 11. Automattic Lounge • In San Francisco • Anyone can drop-in • Nobody commutes every day
- 12. Remote first, Remote-only for 11 years
- 13. People: Then & Now
- 14. San Francisco, 2006 First company-wide meetup
- 15. Quebec, 2009 First company meetup I attended
- 16. Whistler, 2016 Most recent company meetup
- 17. 100% flat No hierarchy, just teams 2009 2016 ↓
- 19. Tools: Then & Now
- 20. IRC Mostly SVN + Trac 1 “P2” blog Skype (1:1) Search across P2/IRC Not much email
- 21. 415 “P2” blogs Slack Github > SVN + Trac Zoom (team video chat) Skype (1:1) Search across P2/Slack/Code/ Support Tickets/Docs Still not much email
- 23. Example of P2 (Not Automattic. make.wordpress.org/design )
- 24. 105 teams 198 projects 77 “watercoolers” Active P2s 402,785 posts, 1,229,930 comments, and 89,765,415 words across 415 P2s
- 25. Why It's Working for Us
- 26. Open Source DNA Transparency, autonomy, shared goal & passion https://www.flickr.com/photos/whiteafrican/2570514012
- 27. 100% Distributed Asynchronous communication is default https://www.flickr.com/photos/uclmaps/15051460475
- 28. Trial Period Hire only those who can work effectively in this environment https://officetoday.wordpress.com/2016/08/23/london-ontario-canada/
- 29. Future of Work
- 30. More automation Business tools, CMS, AI… https://www.flickr.com/photos/gastev/2174504149
- 31. More collaboration Across locations, cultures, and languages
- 32. More self-driven Choose where/when/ how you work https://www.flickr.com/photos/footfun/3838719190
- 33. Future of Work … You can try it now.
- 35. Or join Automattic? :) https://automattic.com/work-with-us/
- 36. ‣ How I fell into the rabbit hole: life and work at the distributed wonderland. https://luca.blog/2014/10/14/how-i-fell-into-the-rabbit-hole-life-and-work-at-the-distributed-wonderland/ ‣ Hire by Auditions, Not Resumes http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/01/hire-by-auditions-not-resumes/ ‣ This pioneering tech company figured how to make work-from-home work http://qz.com/694410/automattic-has-figured-out-the-right-tools-for-remote-working/ ‣ Make WordPress https://make.wordpress.org/ Resources: