As a remote engineering leader, I’ve had the opportunity to work with and build teams of engineers beaming in from across time zones, geographies, and cultures.
And while remote and distributed work is a hot topic of late and getting it ‘right’ might seem intuitive, it takes a lot of intention to build an equitable, welcoming, and high-performing globally distributed team.
Ultimately, achieving alignment comes from effectively communicating about the challenges we’re facing, crafting the right problem statements, and ensuring we’re including everyone in the process. Here I’ll walk through some of my learnings on building for distributed alignment so you can empower your engineers, wherever they are.