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Async Cat herding – April edition

March 29, 2017March 30, 2017 asynccatsLeave a comment

For our third meetup we are going to have Lars Trieloff (Director Platform Marketing at Adobe) talking about: “When things go wrong: managing conflict in distributed teams” When: April, 27th at lunch time (12:00 pm) Where: Europace AG offices in Berlin Please register soon here: online

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Postponed – Fourth async cats

March 12, 2017March 17, 2017 stefzkiLeave a comment

Postponed! See you in April for a talk by Lars Trieloff. Hi everyone, we want to announce the next meetup of async cat herding. It is scheduled for March 20th starting at 12:15 at Europace (Klosterstrasse 71, 10179 Berlin). Alexander Grosse will join us and prepared a talk. Alexander Grosse, is currently the… Continue reading Postponed – Fourth async cats

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Video and slides of last meetup posted

March 10, 2017March 13, 2017 asynccatsLeave a comment

Björn Schneider: Gehaltsfindung in der Gruppe: Achnee Meetup: Gehaltsfindung in der Gruppe – ein Experiment from EUROPACE on Vimeo. Leif Hanack: Why we think a flexible working model is more and more important: //speakerdeck.com/assets/embed.js Achnee Meetup: Warum wir denken, dass ein flexibles und verteiltes Arbeitsmodell immer wichtiger wird from EUROPACE on Vimeo.

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Third meeting – wrap up

March 6, 2017 asynccatsLeave a comment

Earlier this week we had our third #achnee meetup, kindly hosted by Europace. The meetup ran as an experiment: It was scheduled as a half day meetup. Discussed during the last #achee meetup in January, the event was put together within a month. As first speaker we had Leif Hannack explaining which steps his team… Continue reading Third meeting – wrap up

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Third Async Cats Meetup

February 14, 2017February 18, 2017 asynccats4 Comments

Our third meetup will be slightly unusual in that instead of being a brief lunch session we’ll try and bring enough speakers together for an afternoon session. The idea was born at Europace: After our last meetup Stefan Rudnitzki approached me the idea of hosting a “complete afternoon meetup all around innovative management techniques over… Continue reading Third Async Cats Meetup

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Second Meetup: Check

January 26, 2017January 26, 2017 asynccatsLeave a comment

For our second meetup we had Jilles van Gurp tell us more about his experiences setting up a distributed (currently small scale as in max 10 ppl) team for his company within Europe. In his talk he started with a more general introduction to how he came to software engineering, he gave a very brief… Continue reading Second Meetup: Check

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Second Async Cat Herding Meetup – Speaker

December 31, 2016January 17, 2017 asynccatsLeave a comment

Following feedback from the first meetup this edition will feature only one talk to avoid extending the lunch break for too long. We’ll have Jilles van Gurp. Jilles will be giving a broader software engineering perspective on the topic of distributed teams and software ecosystems. Jilles is Technical Lead at Inbot, Inc. working in a fully… Continue reading Second Async Cat Herding Meetup – Speaker

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First meetup: Check

August 2, 2016August 2, 2016 asynccatsLeave a comment

A week ago the first meetup took place at Jugglehub – we had Dajana Günther and Sebastian Schelter as speakers. If you are interested in the talks, here you go: We met at lunch time, we had roughly 15 people show up in person (that includes two children that came together with their parents), another guy join… Continue reading First meetup: Check

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First Async Cat Herding Meetup: Speakers

June 27, 2016June 27, 2016 asynccatsLeave a comment

For our first meetup we are going to have two talks: Sebastian Schelter will tell us more about “Community-Driven Open Source – the Apache Way”. The ASF has been building open source software in distributed teams for over 15 years. This should give a head start into how to organise software development in teams spanning… Continue reading First Async Cat Herding Meetup: Speakers

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Welcome to Async Cat Herding

June 1, 2016June 7, 2016 asynccatsAside2 Comments

People working together across geographies and timezones is becoming increasingly common: Open source projects typically recruit contributors at global scale. The research community is open to participants all over the world. Large corporations are increasingly likely to build teams that span more than one site. Startups are hiring globally to be able to work together with the best talent. With the proliferation of open source software projects in development projects, chances are developers have to communicate with remote teams effectively even if everyone on the core team is located in one single room.

This meetup tries to bring together people who are interested in working in distributed teams: How does communication work? How does one create a shared vision and culture if not everyone is on site? What are the virtues of asynchronous vs. syncronous communication? How do we create transparency? What does collaboration look like? Do Agile principles still apply? Topics like over-commitment, self-discipline, integration of isolated remote workers, hurdles to remote work due the internal IT infrastructure, shared decision making, canonical communication media, implementation of code review, giving feedback, and a lot more are topics of interest. The goal is to bring together both people working in distributed teams and those who are wondering how on earth this might work.

If you’d like to join remotely, let us know – unless I’m told about a better option there might be a Google Hangout On Air for the event.

Our first meetup is scheduled to take place on July, 28th at jugglehub Berlin. The event is scheduled to open at 1p.m., that is Berlin lunch time. If there is enough interest, providing a reasonably priced food option is possible. Just leave a comment if you are interested and we’ll figure something out.

We will have two speakers to share their experiences. Names, bios, as well as information on the talk content to be provided soon at this very site.

Want to collaborate online? Check out our G+ community

Want to attend our very first meetup in July 2016: Claim your ticket here

Looking forward to seeing you!

Why a red panda? In German this cute little animal has a second name: Katzen Bär, which translates to cat bear. Source of the picture: https://www.flickr.com/photos/karamell/3858928689