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Ride the Lightning vol. 25
Distributed Teamwork
Try It Now! Future of Work
Naoko Takano / Automattic December 8, 2016 @ AQ Tokyo
@naokomc
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Naoko Takano 高野直子
AutomatticGlobalizer, Team Global
(Localization project mgt)
WordPress.org Polyglots/Community Contributor
(Translation & event organization)
Established: August 2005
HQ: San Francisco, USA
100% Distributed (“Remote”)
…and too!
.blog Domain
hosting
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
514 staff in 52 countries
Automattic Lounge
• In San Francisco
• Anyone can drop-in
• Nobody commutes every day
Remote first, Remote-only
for 11 years
People: Then & Now
San Francisco, 2006First company-wide meetup
Quebec, 2009First company meetup I attended
Whistler, 2016Most recent company meetup
100% flat
No hierarchy, just teams
2009
2016↓
Tools: Then & Now
IRC
Mostly SVN + Trac
1 “P2” blog
Skype (1:1)
Search across P2/IRC
Not much email
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
105 teams 198 projects
77 “watercoolers”
Active P2s
402,785 posts, 1,229,930 comments, and 89,765,415 words across 415 P2s
Why It's Working for Us
Open Source DNA Transparency, autonomy, shared goal & passion
https://www.flickr.com/photos/whiteafrican/2570514012
100% Distributed Asynchronous communication is default
https://www.flickr.com/photos/uclmaps/15051460475
Trial Period Hire only those who can work effectively in this environment
https://officetoday.wordpress.com/2016/08/23/london-ontario-canada/
Future of Work
More automationBusiness tools, CMS, AI…
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gastev/2174504149
More collaborationAcross locations, cultures, and languages
More self-drivenChoose where/when/how you work
https://www.flickr.com/photos/footfun/3838719190
Future of Work … You can try it now.
Open source project
Or join Automattic? :) https://automattic.com/work-with-us/
‣ 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/
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