Video · ~35 min video

Kevin Hale: How to Work Together (YC Startup School)

Kevin Hale, Y Combinator · Y Combinator (YouTube) Free Beginner

Kevin Hale: How to Work Together (YC Startup School)

Hale lays out how to set up working relationships and explicit processes so a team collaborates well instead of relying on everyone being in the same place at the same time. The framing of agreeing up front on how you work together is exactly what keeps a distributed team accountable. Watch it to design the operating agreement your remote team runs on.

  • Agree explicitly on how you will work together
  • Clear roles and processes prevent silent drift
  • Good collaboration is designed, not assumed
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The question it answers

  1. How do I keep an offshore or remote dev team accountable across time zones?

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