Book · About 256 pages

Remote: Office Not Required

Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson · Basecamp Paid Beginner

This is the canonical case for running distributed work well, written by the founders of Basecamp who built a remote company long before it was normal. If you are managing an offshore or remote dev team, start here for the mindset shift: you manage output and trust, not hours in a chair. Treat it as a starting point for how to think about remote work, then adapt the tactics to your own team.

• Judge people on the work they ship, not on being visible or online, which is the root of accountability across time zones.
• Overlap is a feature, not a bug: a few shared hours a day is enough if the rest of the work is written down and async.
• Talent is not bound to your city, so building a remote team is a way to hire well even when you are building outside the big startup hubs.