In this episode, Hiten is sharing with us how Nira is hiring a global and scalable remote team and optimizing remote work practices.

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• 00:25 - Hiten Shah's path
• 03:00 - Hiring challenges in a remote and global setting
• 09:00 - Why great planning should be a core skill for all engineers
• 13:00 - Scaling a remote engineering team
• 14:00 - Optimizing remote work practices and planning exercises
• 15:50 - Async and sync communication at Nira
• 18:00 - Working remotely vs working from home during a global pandemic
• 28:00 - Adoption of distributed work

Dragan will share with us his study on optimizing PR and philosophy on async vs sync development. 

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• 02:20 - Dragan's path to extreme programming
• 04:00 - Dragan's study on the best way to code review
• 11:40 - "how do we keep the cost of code review per line of code constant, as we decrease the size of the PR"
• 12:00 - Synchronous code creation
• 13:40 - Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology https://www.amazon.com/Accelerate-Building-Performing-Technology-Organizations/dp/B07BMBYHXL
• 14:30 - Mobbing and pairing for more productive and effective developers
• 16:00 - Deep dive into Dragan's study metrics and insights
• 18:50 - Enable teams to evaluate their current process in a data-informed way
• 20:00 - The results your team can expect from Dragan's study
• 22:30 - Latency in remote vs. co-located teams
• 24:00 - Remote vs. co-located and the tools to enable both
• 28:00 - Psychological safety and positive reinforcing feedback loop in synchronous workflows
• 35:00 - The tools to help you get into a collaboration mode faster
• 38:20 - Asynchronous versus synchronous work
• 39:00 - Fewer delays in communication leads to shorter feedback loops

https://www.slideshare.net/kobac/async-code-reviews-are-killing-your-companys-throughput-248758692

In this episode, Don Goodman-Wilson will be talking to Remote.com founder and CEO Job Van Der Voort about building, scaling, and managing remote teams, why Remote.com was founded, and the challenges for global remote teams.

Just last week the company announced they raised a $150 million Series B.

Remote.com provides international payroll benefits, taxes and compliance for businesses.

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• 00:40 - Remote.com founding story by Job and what the challenges are for remote global teams.
• 02:39 - How does remote.com structure its model to make international hiring a breeze? 
  04:20 - What were remote.com's biggest challenges when setting up this sort of system?
• 06:35 - What does it like harmonizing global vacation schedules in an "unlimited vacation" era?
• 09:15 - Trends in remote work and what's next?
• 11:40 - Job's tips for managers in different time zones
• 15:30 - What top skills and tools do you expect a remote worker to learn to be successful?
• 16:23 - How to be a better manager of a remote team
• 17:12 - What is Job's recommendation for the best remote working stack?
• 18:30 - Exploring VR as an alternative for bringing people together
• 20:45 - The advantages of remote work and diversity at remote.com

https://nltimes.nl/2021/06/03/quarter-work-home-lovers-rather-change-jobs-return-office

In this episode, CoScreen co-founders Max and Till are talking to Jake Saper, a partner at Emergence Capital on deep collaboration, the future of work and tools that pioneered deep collaboration workflows.

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• 00:45 - Journey to venture capital
• 03:30 - The origin of Deep Collaboration by Jake
• 07:00 - Figma as a leader of Deep Collaboration
• 11:00 - Persona-based mentality vs Job-to-be-done based mentality
• 13:00 - Bringing back context to engineers with Deep Collaboration
• 16:55 - The successful future of application switching
• 19:40 - "Collaboration software is increasingly at odds with productivity"
• 23:00 - Remote engineering stack for Deep Collaboration
• 25:50 - The struggles of hybrid work post covid
• 27:50 - Creating moments of serendipity remotely

In this episode, CoScreen co-founders Max and Till are talking to Darren Murph, Head of Remote at GitLab

• 00:25 - About Derren and his career path to GitLab
• 02:00 - The way GitLab approaches async and sync communication
• 05:30 - Hiring in a remote organization
• 08:00 - How COVID helped organizations understand better their operating principles
• 11:17 - How to overcome the miscommunications of async
• 14:00 - How GitLab is achieving more async work with fewer sync sessions
• 15:50 - Mob and pair programming while working remotely
• 17:30 - How to avoid a deeper communication wedge with dedicated proposals.
• 18:24 - How GitLab is scaling and cataloging knowledge long term
• 21:00 - GitLab as the only source of truth
• 22:35 - How GitLab came up with its core values 
• 25:00 - The difference between working remote and working from home
• 26:30 - The future of work
• 29:55 - Tips and tricks for bettering remote work
• 35:00 - Serendipity in office vs in a remote setting

We are chatting with Joe Nash on how to build developer communities, running virtual hackathons, and Battlesnake. 
 

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• 00:40: What does it mean to build developer relationships
• 02:00: The power of learning through hackathons
• 03:30: Creativity and creation at hackathons
• 05:30: Why virtual hackathons might be more productive
• 10:30: The role Discord and Twitch play in virtual event and hackathons
• 15:30: How Battlesnake came to be what it is today
• 22:00: The importance of social component in a virtual event

https://mlh.io/ 

https://play.battlesnake.com/

In this episode, Don Goodman-Wilson will be talking to Floor Drees from Microsoft on developer relations, organizing engaging developer conferences, and the challenge of being remote during COVID

• 00:30 - About Floor Drees and DevRel at Microsoft
• 02:20 - About conferences in the developer space
• 05:00 - How to create an engaging event
• 08:50 - The advantages and benefits of remote conferences
• 15:00 - Creating an accessible virtual conference
• 18:00 - Hybrid events and creating a more inclusive environment for everyone
• 19:50 - The way conferences will change in the near future

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In this episode, Max and Till, co-founders of CoScreen talking to Jason Warner, CTO of GitHub

• 00:50 - Jason Warner journey to GitHub 
• 02:40 - Collaborative engineering impact on GitHub 
• 05:03 - What is the next big thing for asynchronous engineering workflows 
• 08:20 - Jason's experiment and experience working remotely for a decade 
• 15:18 - Managing your energy level in a remote environment 
• 17:38 - Creating moments of serendipity while working remotely 
• 20:30 - Jason's toolstack and approaches 
• 23:55 - The mass adoption of Pair Programming during the pandemic 
• 27:00 - Developers value creation 
• 30:26 - What is next for 2021 

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