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The Year Without Pants: Wordpress.com And The Future Of Work (2013)

by Scott Berkun(Favorite Author)

3.84 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1118660633 (ISBN13: 9781118660638)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Jossey-Bass

review 1: Scott was hired by founder of WordPress Matt MullenweG in August 2010 as employee #58 at Automattic. Automattic is a commercial firm also founded by Matt Mullenweg uses WordPress open source software to provide an online cloud hosted service of WordPress at WordPress.com with enhancements and additional services.As Scott narrates his first experiences at we get a feeling its a company that is all counter-culture when it comes to its management style. All the (then) 50 employees were reporting to CEO or Matt directly, there were no managers in between. One of the reasons for Matt in hiring Scott was an experiment in introducing leads to the roughly 10 newly created teams. Automattic employees were mostly working remote from their homes or shared offices or coffee shops fr... moreom around the globe. This indifference to a location or an office allowed Automattic to hire the best talent out there, which follows the culture of open source development, where contribution can come from anywhere in the world. As a result the company relies heavily on online tools including Skype, IRC (yes the old platform) and for Project tracking/Group discussion a WordPress template they call “P2″. The book was an easy read with sections that made you think. Apart from new online tools of collaboration, reading this book I learned more about various tools of Automattic that might be of use in my work.
review 2: This was a fun book. A management consultant and author takes a break from preaching to lead a Wordpress.com team that works full-time remotely all over the world. If you're a manager, you should read this. Even if the constant working from home isn't for you, it might be wise to consider alternative forms of communication to emails and face-to-face meetings, like this team has. I realize the author's viewpoint is biased (he is, after all, talking about real human being members of his and other teams, and tends to speak only positively about any of them), but it still felt genuine nonetheless. less

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