How to maintain a great

execution in remote
Yolocracy Meetup - June 2019
What do I mean by “remote”
What it isn’t

Multi-sites “Teletravail” aka Satellite

occasional workers
remote work
What it is

Collocated Multi-sites Satellites Remote-first

Source : https://martinfowler.com/articles/remote-or-co-located.html
Multiple type of remote teams

Spread Fully distributed

In 1 timezone
worldwide with nomads

Source : https://open.buffer.com/remote-work/
Before diving in
 →Yes
Can you be highly
successful in remote?

Fully distributed Part-remote

 →Yes
Can this be useful for a
non-remote company?

Remote companies have constraints forcing them to work

more thoughtfully from day 1. But the same constraints for
traditional companies reaching 100 people.
Slite’s story
Slite is a simple, collaborative documentation tool that
helps businesses stay organized and work more
thoughtfully.
Slite’s story
1st move was Arnaud. Awesome, but would stay in Tours.
It fitted our vision, he matched our values. We went for it.
Slite’s story
But remote wasn’t yet a clear path for us. Next few junior
folks were hired in Paris, 1 senior was hired in Lyon.
Slite’s story
For a brief 3 months, we were all collocated in San
Francisco, while in YCombinator accelerator.
Slite’s story
We raised a large round and 2x the team. When looking
for experienced folks we saw the huge benefits of remote.
Core principles for remote to work

🤝 🎙 🕐
Trust Be explicit Asynchronous

✨ 📣
Transparency Communication
 🤝
Trust

If you have hired people you trust,

“ trust that they are working.

 🎙
Be explicit

Untold things create conflicts. In

remote it's very hard to defuse those,
so be explicit to avoid them.
A few examples
 🕐
Asynchronous

Not everyone is online at the same

time. It means your communication
items should have larger half-lives.
 🤝
Transparency

For asynchronous communication to

work, you need to have all the
information always accessible.
Have all information accessible
Onboarding

Project management

Wiki, canonical info

 📣
Intensive communication

Remote forces you to raise the quality

of interactions and multiply the
opportunity for it.
 A few examples we put in place
Weekly updates
⭐ 1:1s
Shout out
2 remaining limitations

💡 🛩
Ideation Carbon impact
→ Physical
→ Offset
gathering every
2 months
Thanks!

Not all companies need to be in

remote but all companies (You!) need
to work like remote ones

The mere fact of working in remote

makes you think on the how you
work. Constantly.