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Open and Async: The collaborative software development playbook for remote and distributed teams

Open and Async: The collaborative software development playbook for remote and distributed teams


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Working from home working remotely.

Your company survived the pandemic by shipping everyone a laptop, bolting Zoom onto existing workflows, and declaring victory. That wasn't remote work. That was office work in sweatpants - same meetings, same approval chains, same "quick sync" culture, just piped through a webcam.

Open and Async is the playbook for the teams that actually figured it out. Drawn from more than a decade at GitHub - the company that's been remote-first since before it was fashionable - it's an opinionated, battle-tested guide to the two practices that make distributed work succeed: radical transparency and asynchronous communication. Async is the operating system; remote is the hardware.

For managers

Build teams that ship without constant synchronous coordination. Create a documentation culture that scales across time zones. Retain your best people by respecting their time, their focus, and their intelligence - while advancing a career built on outcomes, not optics.

For individual contributors

Become visible, effective, and promotable without hallway politics or performative face time. Build a career on the strength of your work, not the luck of your seating chart.

Inside you'll learn:

  • Why everything should have a URL
  • How to treat meetings as escalation, not default
  • How to measure impact over input
  • Patterns for leading across time zones
  • How to navigate resistance to change
  • How to write decisions that outlive the meeting
  • How to make the shift stick long after the novelty wears off

Stop digitizing the office. Start building something better.



About the Author :
Ben Balter spent more than a decade at GitHub, most recently as Director of Hubber Enablement, where he helped thousands of GitHubbers do their best remote work. A former Presidential Innovation Fellow and GitHub's first Government Evangelist, he's spent nearly two decades building software across open-source communities, government, startups, and large organizations - and the last decade proving that async-first teams don't just keep up, they pull ahead.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9798995754213
  • Publisher: Open & ASYNC LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Open & ASYNC LLC
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 578
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: The collaborative software development playbook for remote and distributed teams
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 8995754214
  • Publisher Date: 21 Jul 2026
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 30 mm
  • Weight: 816 gr


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