Scott Chacon | Remote teams, global products and the future of Git | Small Talk E03

Μικρή Κουβέντα

For this episode, we have Scott Chacon as a guest - co-founder and CEO at GitButler, ex-co-founder at GitHub, and Chatterbug. We talked about building products and companies, remote teams, how to reach your customers, and the future of software development and Git.

Links

• GitButler — https://gitbutler.com/

Suggestions

• Scott — https://gitbutler.com/
• Scott — https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25499718-children-of-time
• Paris — https://changelog.com/podcast
• Antonis — https://githubflow.github.io/

Guests

• Scott Chacon - @chacon

Chapters

00:00:00 Introduction and welcome Scott 00:03:20 Leaving GitHub 00:06:21 Company Culture and Communication in Remote Setups 00:09:20 Challenges of Remote Work and teams split between remote and the office 00:19:53 Reaching a Global Audience 00:21:43 Importance of Getting Close to Clients 00:28:06 Understanding the pain points of open source developers 00:35:20 Rethinking Version Control 00:44:06 Simplifying branch reviews and the concept of stacked branches 00:52:16 Managing Branches and Code History in Version Control 00:56:08 Pull Requests vs Individual Commits: The Shift in Importance 01:04:19 Introducing virtual branches and the concept of context-switching 01:13:25 Recommendations