Managing Across Time Zones - A Remote Team Leadership Retrospective

Learn from an Engineering Manager's retrospective talk about managing distributed engineering teams across multiple time zones at Cloudflare following their transition to fully remote work in 2020. Explore the challenges and solutions discovered while leading 12 engineers across two teams operating in San Francisco, London, Austin, and New York time zones. Gain insights into the experimental processes implemented to enhance collaborative work, enable incremental delivery, and foster team relationships in a virtual environment. Discover practical lessons from both successful and unsuccessful approaches, as well as upcoming strategies being tested for distributed team management.