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Lessons Learned8 Years of Distributed Development at Google

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whoami(dape@google.com)

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2878(2008-03-31)

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Communications

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L6 TLM(staff software engineer)

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20 40 30 30

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06:00 - 20:00

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Lessons Learned(so far... anecdotal... at best)

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Disclaimer

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Background

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Code is king!

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Engineers all the way down...

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Team1 TL, 3-5 SWE, 1 PM,

1 TPM1 SRE, 1 SET, 1 TE

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Working at Google...

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Project ManagerScrum Master

Common ToolsProject Model

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How do we avoid this?

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Recruiting

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LeadershipOwnershipPriorities

GTD

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O: ObjectivesKR: Key Results

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70%

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Code Reviews

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When we don’t agree?

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Launch tool

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Distributed Development

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Talent not $$$

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KISS

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Separation of Concerns

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Strong Local Leaders

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Weekly Team Syncs

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Weekly 1:1

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Travel

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The beer factor

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Let’s do a Video Chat!

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Profile Pictures

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Candid Feedback

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Finally, remember...

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OK to fail

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