technology is your office (qcon london 2012)

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Doing a great job when your team is spread across the globe used to be nearly impossible. Nowadays, it’s almost the norm; I will show you why and how to pull it off.

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Technology is Your Office

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Who am I, right?

Horia Dragomir

UI Developer @ wooga

HTML5 Social Games

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working in the same space traditionally faster and better

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No longer the case, though

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“Management”Development

Design42

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Talent is Where Talent is.

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Silicon Valleys

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Boring places are just Friday, 9 March, 12

Once Upon A Time

• 6 Geeks

• 3 Projects

• 4 Continents

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Distributed is Hard

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Keeping it Together is Hard

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Great Communication

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Skype

• office like group conversation

• custom notifications

• great for file transfers

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We Used Email

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Email

• all@your-organization.co.uk

• standard footer

• each team gets their own email

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Google Apps

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docs.google.com

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Awesome Management

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basecampFriday, 9 March, 12

redmine

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pivotaltracker

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... even JIRA

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Clients Are Tougher To Handle

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everytimezone.comFriday, 9 March, 12

Management Needs to Manage

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Or Just Get Out of the Way

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Developers Need Freedom

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Developers Need FreedomNot too much as you need coding standards or else

you will go mad. Fast.

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Developers Love Having Their Own Rhythm

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git

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No, SVN does not really cut it

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Windows?

hg does wonders

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githubFriday, 9 March, 12

github.com

• pull requests

• github issues

• teams, organizations

• private repositories

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Pair Programming

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Pair Programminghard when you’re not in the same room

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Pair Programmingcan prove harmful

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Remote Means Devs Get Their Private Time

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Screen Sharingand voice call

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yuuguucross platform screen sharing

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Skypestill the best voice call software

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Google Chrome Extension

cross platform screen sharing, even on chromebooks

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cloud9 IDEsurprising results with multiple user editing

superb git integration

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Google Chatvery, very reliable

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Have CIit will save your wits

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Don’t Let Backends Design!ever

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Making Things Prettyfrom afar

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Wireframemocking bird, balsamiq, axxure

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photoshopetiquette.comdesigners already speak too many languages

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layer vaultlike git for designers

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Revisionsmuch more sour from afar

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UI Devs Need to talk to the Designers

Frontends are great at communicating with backend developers -- and they also understand designers

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Keeping people talking is hard

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Cultureso much harder to set up remotely

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Gamesanything that has multiplayer or is online based

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Intranetand set up a knowledge base

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MeetHave fun AND get some work done

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Go To Conferenceslike this one

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Communicate Culturebecause the rest is up to technology

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Communicate Culture

@hdragomir @wooga

because the rest is up to technology

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