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Tips for having a high productivity remote company?

1 points by aschema_123 ↗ HN
We're building a product that from a technical perspective, is extremely "nitty-gritty". It is complex, feature-rich, and has a non-negligible degree of technical risk.

What are your tips for running a successful remote-based company building something like this?

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pacarvalho
Is everyone an employee or are there contractors as well? Are there managers? how large is the team?

For smaller teams (sub 10 people), I find that having 1 daily informal standup and having the leaders make themselves readily available for answering questions is often sufficient. The key is often for leadership not to block development (so no long review cycles for PRs or long time deciding on details that subordinates need to accomplish their work).

sibeliuss
Ask engineers to open PRs -- even if they're WIP -- early. That way other engineers can check in and unblock those who may be stuck, or who are shy about being stuck. (This is especially important for anyone less than Sr 2.)

Doing this also keeps people focused on the task with less procrastination. No commits in 3 days... why? In my experience this is the best way to keep people moving while also increasing visibility into technical code at all stages of the process.