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October 2020

Managing Remote Teams: 3 Steps to Success

At times, directing projects in multiple locales from a desktop or laptop feels like conducting an orchestra in the dark. Coordinating with diverse, remote teams of developers producing software on an agile schedule of continual updates and releases can be especially nerve-wracking. At Sleuth, we’re crushing the remote-work challenge because, in 20 years of managing from afar, we’ve learned a thing or two — actually three — about how to do it right.

Three meetings your remote startup must have (and one to avoid)!

As a small startup, and a fully remote one to boot (thanks COVID), having only the “right” amount of meetings is crucial. Over-index on meetings and your team will get nothing done. Go too far the other way and your team won’t understand the vision, why you are doing what you are doing, and won’t be able to form the personal bonds that are required for a small team to succeed. We set aside 45 minutes every morning to discuss pretty much anything and everything.

Continuous Deployment explained in code

Don Brown, CTO/Co-founder of Sleuth and ex-Atlassian Architect, shows what Continuous Deployment is and how to we use it to build and deploy Sleuth, itself a deployment tracker. It steps through the CircleCI and Fabric configuration files and code that takes each commit to master and puts them through staging and production environments automatically.

3 + 9 Quick Video Meeting Tips We Use Every Day

Here at Sleuth, we live in Zoom, and have accumulated a list of tips to make video meetings better. I'm going to talk about three quick tips to go from a muddled dungeon dweller to a clear, engaging talking head, all without spending a dime. If you want even more, the above video shows you 9 more tips, including one advanced (but still completely free) tip to turn a video call into a real-time broadcast experience.