SESSION + Live Q&A
Scaling Distributed Teams Around the Globe
In this session, you'll hear about how one distributed organization (with bases in two Indian cities, and in Australia) has applied distributed systems patterns to scaling distributed teams' processes and further improved them by paying attention to human parts like trust, cultural differences, communication, and many others.
You'll hear examples of what went right, what went wrong, and what we've learned as we've built a network of effective distributed teams across multiple countries, in multiple timezones.
Speaker
Ranganathan Balashanmugam
CTO @EverestEngineering
Ranganathan Balashanmugam has worked with globally distributed teams for the last fourteen years, and was recently named as one of the top 10 CTOs in India by ceo insights magazine. He was a developer for nearly eleven years when he was working on using distributed technologies to scale software....
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