How to Build a Remote Team for Better Happiness

How to build a Remote Team for Better Happiness 

a write up of the 2016 GDC talk by Foxcub


Foxcub operates globally with 30 people.
5-6 devs, 12 artists, then misc. Art is separate from dev pipeline.

Recommended Reading: The Future of Work - Jacob Morgan.

Measure people on output not hours.
Give people free hours.
Bet big on the good things.
Advantage of hiring.
Lifestyle, Work life balance, communication, measured on impact.
You get more experienced hires, opportunity for healthy culture.

Ever discipline test; can they work within our environment. 

They look for people via subreddits.

Deveolpers designers and UI need to be closer to the same time block than artist due to artists often being able to run with an idea or concept for several hours independently. 

Core hours

Remote Operation 12:10

Slack, a ton of channels - each conversation thread is it's own channel.
#analysis, #dev_analysis, #callouts, #random, #builds, #cs, #git

Fast image gif sharing app (Jing/ShareX)

Soundcloud can play sounds inline in Slack. 

Q: How do we replace in person communication? Eaves-dropping 
A: Teamspeak, everyone is full admin, able to move people between channels, low friction between people talking, available, busy, away muted channels for pure status indicator. every conversation is default public, except for a few 1:1 rooms. 

Enable-Eaves Dropping
- Open voice rooms
- Write down decisions after calls and post into a public channel

Formalized team-wide sync meetings, discipline focused. Scrum daily, text. Call outs highlighting good work (?)

Formalized Team-wide meetings; Producers / Management message to the team, each discipline needs a voice. We call people out to bolster people. TODO: Review The Lader's Guide by Eric Ries for how to form healthy competitive work environment.
Record team wide weekly meeting for those unavailable. 

Video is still important - Creative conversations, feedback and 1:1 sessions. 

Whiteboard
Trello

Daily task updates to someone

#afk channels
game night after all hands

#photo sharing channel - great culture addition.

Be Clear About The Rules


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