Running Remote Conference 2023 Day #2

Last day, we were welcomed by the Minister of Labor - Ana Mendes, explaining about the ways Government are laying rules to help remote work. There seems new labor law coming on 1st May 2023. She mentioned about working in interior of Portugal and benefits that Government providing in doing so.

Next was a talk by Andreas Klinger  about Remote First Capital. Some highlights are mentioned below. He has uploaded the slide on Twitter.

• as an engineering manage feeling pain of sales people very important
• talent is worldwide and customers are online
• start VC fund with core investment

Let me sum up the rest day speakers highlight. I have not added their names here in the list as I only wrote the pointers from their talk.

• Give context while  communicating
• Document everything
• Build talent density in a remote team - Book: No Rules Rules - Reed Hastings
• Make keeper test
• Recruiting a remote team - Book: Who
• Build a scorecard
• Have in-house recruiter
• Building a culture of accountability - Frameworks: OKR and EOS
• Book: Traction
• Give sense of urgency

I would edit the pointers to make more descriptive when I get more time.

Its a wrap!