From one to two: how to start a successful distributed engineering office.

Recently it feels like companies are moving beyond the single office model earlier and earlier in the lifetime. Maybe it’s improvements in video conferencing, perhaps it’s the increasing costs of operating in Silicon Valley, perhaps it’s just a fad, but in any case, effectively supporting additional company offices is an important and increasingly core skill for engineering leaders.

I’ve had the good fortune to work with several distributed offices, founding SocialCode’s San Francisco office...