How to manage a globally distributed team

Companies more and more embrace working in a distributed environment. While it allows for attracting talent and working with great people around the world, it also means it comes with new challenges.

Based on my experience as an engineer manager at GitHub for a team of 20 people across 3 continents in 7 countries, 6 states in the US and 7 time zones I would love to share the things we do to build a strong and cohesive team. I’ll also share how we embrace asynchronous workflows where we can effectively use the synchronous time we do have and regularly meet up in person