BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170418T171710Z UID:53edb438-86df-447e-8a42-7871aebf265b DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20170427T105000 DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20170427T113000 DESCRIPTION:Distributed teams can have big benefits for both employers and employees. But there are many challenges. Being successful requires change s to work practices\, communication\, and style — and not just from t he remote people. Everyone will experience changes. It helps to be prepar ed … and most of what we see being written and discussed is focused o n remote workers\, not the organization that supports them.\n\nIn this tal k\, we will look at the challenges and rewards of working in a distributed team setting based on several years of experience growing large distribut ed engineering teams.\n\n \n Maria Gutierrez i s VP of Engineering at FreeAgent\, one of the UK's most popular online acc ounting software providers.\n\nGlenn and Maria recently worked together at LivingSocial where they led large\, globally distributed teams from Dalla s and Edinburgh\, respectively.\n\n \n Gle nn Vanderburg is VP of Engineering at First.io\, a startup building softwa re to amplify the effectiveness of residential real estate agents. He has worked on distributed teams at Relevance\, InfoEther\, LivingSocial\, and now First.\n\nMaria Gutierrez\n \n \n Maria Gutierrez is VP of Engineering at FreeAgent\, one of the UK's most popular online accounting software providers.\n\nGlenn and Mari a recently worked together at LivingSocial where they led large\, globally distributed teams from Dallas and Edinburgh\, respectively.\n\n \n \n \n Glenn Vanderbu rg\n \n \n Glenn Vanderburg is VP of Engineering at First.io\, a startup building software to amplify the effectiveness of residential real estate agents. He has worked on di stributed teams at Relevance\, InfoEther\, LivingSocial\, and now First. LOCATION:156 SUMMARY:A clear-eyed look at distributed teams (Distributed Teams) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170418T171710Z UID:5c197033-2eb5-4d9d-9af2-9ce34289acdb DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20170427T114000 DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20170427T122000 DESCRIPTION:Our company is traditional in many ways\, one of which being th e need to come into the office each day. Our team of software developers b ucks that trend\, spreading across 6 states and 4 countries. Dev teams con sider themselves "Remote First"\, while DevOps and Application Support are "Local First." Each has adopted tools\, habits\, and practices to maximiz e their configuration. Each style has learned valuable lessons from the ot her. This presentation is about how our teams have evolved: the tools\, th e compromises\, the wins and losses\, and how we successfully blend Distri buted and Concentrated teams.\n\n \n Ben Klang has always been fascinated with technology. Disassembling clock radios\, breaking and fixing the family computer\, eventually embarking on a career in software development. More recently\, he has taken leadership roles on technology teams\, and as a result had to start over\, learning all new s kills. Today he is proud to work for a company named Fortune #1 Workplace for Camaraderie\, but mostly is happy thanks to the incredible team of hum ans he's privileged to work with each day.\n\nBen Klang\n \ n \n Ben Klang has always been fascinated with technology. Disassembling clock radios\, breaking and fixing the fami ly computer\, eventually embarking on a career in software development. Mo re recently\, he has taken leadership roles on technology teams\, and as a result had to start over\, learning all new skills. Today he is proud to work for a company named Fortune #1 Workplace for Camaraderie\, but mostly is happy thanks to the incredible team of humans he's privileged to work with each day. LOCATION:156 SUMMARY:Distributed & Local: Getting the Best of Both Worlds (Distributed T eams) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170418T171710Z UID:9b4c5aa4-c8e1-479a-8029-d1bc19bff145 DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20170427T135000 DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20170427T143000 DESCRIPTION:Being on a distributed team\, working from your home or coffee shop isn't easy\, but it can be incredibly rewarding. Making it work requ ires constant attention\, as well as support from your team and organizati on. It's more than just setting up Slack and buying a webcam.\n\nWe'll le arn what you can do to be your best self as a remote team member\, as well as what you need from your environment\, team\, and company. It's not ab out technical stuff—it's the human stuff. We'll learn how can you be present and effective when you aren't physically there.\n\n \n David Copeland is a programmer and author. He's the auth or of “Rails\, Angular\, Postgres\, and Bootstrap”\, "The Senior Software Engineer" and "Build Awesome Command-Line Applications in Ruby". He has over 18 years of professional development experience from managin g high-performance\, high-traffic systems at LivingSocial or building the engineering team at Opower to working consulting gigs large and small. Cu rrently\, he's Director of Engineering at fashion start-up Stitch Fix.\n\n David Copeland\n \n \n Davi d Copeland is a programmer and author. He's the author of “Rails\, A ngular\, Postgres\, and Bootstrap”\, "The Senior Software Engineer" a nd "Build Awesome Command-Line Applications in Ruby". He has over 18 years of professional development experience from managing high-performance\, high-traffic systems at LivingSocial or building the engineering team at O power to working consulting gigs large and small. Currently\, he's Direct or of Engineering at fashion start-up Stitch Fix. LOCATION:156 SUMMARY:The Effective Remote Developer (Distributed Teams) END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR