![]() ![]() Reports are in charge of managing the agenda. 1:1s: Each week, reports meet with their manager (at DuckDuckGo, they’re called a “Career Advisor”) to discuss work and growth.Project kick-offs and post-mortems: Every project has a kick-off and a post-mortem where the team plans how they’ll tackle the work and reflects on how everything went.Rather than just a status update, the time is used to work through flags, blockers, and solidify plans for the week. Tactical meetings: Sub-teams meet (usually on a weekly basis) to discuss in-flight work.Stand-ups: The team holds a written stand-up, instead of video ones, to share progress on in-flight work and raise flags or blockers.Team members also post their top priorities in Asana each week and tag them so everyone can see what’s going on across the team at a glance. Asana: Cate’s team uses Asana for team announcements (time off, hack days etc.), weekly project updates.Here’s what a typical week on Cate’s team might look like in terms of meetings and async communication touchpoints. They work on a specific company priority. How the team works Team structureĬate’s responsible for two different teams - her functional native apps team, which is about 25 people, and a group of five (four engineers and one designer) called the objective team. ![]() We sat down with Cate to learn about her approach to meetings and processes, and what she’s learned about leadership along the way. This also applies to DuckDuckGo's working styles with flexible scheduling and locations. The company is built on transparency and trust, and this is experienced as early as the hiring process. They’re a remote, distributed, fast-growing team working across several different time zones and locations. Meet Cate Huston, Engineering Director at DuckDuckGoĬate’s the engineering director and functional leader for the native apps team at DuckDuckGo. Plus, each article features a top-notch leader who's got proven tips and real stories to learn from. This blog series profiles real teams, how they’re structured, and how they communicate through meetings and other touchpoints. That’s why we launched Lead Time: How Teams Work. Oftentimes the best advice and ideas come from other teams just like yours. Leading a team, especially a distributed or growing one, can be hard.
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