Can Distributed Teams
Deliver Quality?
Yegor Bugayenko
CEO @ Zerocracy

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@yb190527

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#1: Tennis Table
How to Increase the Quality of Code?

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#2: More Books
How to Increase the Quality of Code?

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#3: Higher Salaries
How to Increase the Quality of Code?

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Quality can be achieved
only if it is controlled
and enforced

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Programmers love being
forced to write high-
quality code

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Quality is all about
maintainability

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#1: The master branch
is read-only for
everybody

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#2: The build is fragile
—easy to break
a.k.a. strong pipeline

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#3: Code reviews are
mandatory and unbiased

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#4: Success is rewarded,
failures are punished

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High quality can’t be
achieved in co-located
teams, because of…

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Chats
are against quality

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Social biases
are against quality

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Friendship
is against quality

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Monthly salaries
are against quality

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Distributed teams
produce much higher
quality,
if you manage them right.

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Chats

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Social biases

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Friendship

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Monthly salaries

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