Chris Hardie - Growing a Distributed/Remote Team

How do you grow a team of distributed/remote workers while maintaining good communication, encouraging individual productivity, developing strong company culture and getting effective results? This kind of staffing structure is changing how many organizations get things done, and introduces plenty of challenges on its own.

Chris Hardie of Richmond is a lead on the VIP Team at Automattic Inc., the tech company behind WordPress.com with over 400 fully distributed workers around the world. Chris will talk about the tools, product development processes, software workflows and company culture that makes distributed work successful. Even if you're not in a distributed company, some of these concepts might help you do what you do even better.