Wade Foster

what like noise or yeah like a bunch of music just started playing you're not sure where it's coming from well here's the big question what kind of music is it it was a bunch of country music just started playing sorry about that folks i think my wife like had the uh my headphones hooked up to something in the other room just that's funny well look i'm a country music fan a little bit of garth brooks never heard anybody so that's good if it's country music it had to have been my wife so um anyway sorry about that so that's okay so we're saying um

You know, micromanagers, remote, managing those teams.

I think the most important piece there is that when you're in a remote environment, a big part of what you're trying to do is ask people, set the objectives, and then set the deliverables.

And so if you pay attention to what those deliverables are, you can see, are they doing the work in the timeframe which I expected?

So if you think about customer service, it's, are they replying to customers?

You can go look into your

your ticketing software and track the numbers and see like, hey, are they actually performing at the level that I think is representative of what we should be performing at?

For an engineer, you go look at their commit messages, look at the code.

Is the contributions there what I expected for product managers?

Do they have stories and specs written out?

And do they understand the users really well?

And those logs in your project management software.

So like in a remote environment, there's these little artifacts that are existing in all these different tools that you're using

to help you see, are things getting done?

And if you don't see those things, you ask a question.

You say, hey, what's going on?

I thought we'd agreed that this would happen.

And if you don't see it, it poses a question.

Doesn't mean necessarily like something's going wrong, but you know to ask a question about it.

So I actually think that that