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Book of Carcosa

This is the handbook of how we run our virtual teams. Please make merge requests if you see anything that isn't right or if you have anything that would be good to add.

Onboarding#

Welcome to Carcosa. We are very happy that you have choosen to work with us. =)

Carcosa R&D AB is the legal entity (the company) you are working for. Carcosa R&D by it self doesn't have any customers and makes it's money in subsidarys. You will most likely work in several of them, depending on the amount of work avalable at the moment.

We are also collaborating in LPGroup. Which mainly is a git-repo of open source code. In this repo we place code that can be reused in projects we are involved in.

Payment#

In the beginning of our collaboration we see that you send invoices to us once a week. It should be sent via email every Monday, and include the number of hours worked the week before. We are using wise.com to transfer the money from Sweden to your country. You need to either register an account at Wise or send your bank details to your Carcosa contact. The transfer usually takes a couple of days after the invoice has been recived.

Working time#

We practice very flexible working times. Our only fixed requirment is that you work your 40 hours a week. That means you can work 10 hours a day Monday to Tuesday or 6 hours a day Monday to Sunday. You decide what works best for you. That said, we belive it's a good work/life balance to work 8 hours a day Monday to Friday.

Time tracking#

We are using clockify.me to track our time. We are using that service to get a feeling about what projects consumes most time. You will begin to track time on the project "Carcosa - Virtual Teams". For now you can use the task "coding" and just write a simple description. Like "Working on carcosa.se". Later it will probably be more tasks, to track specific things. Like working on a specific microservice.

Communication#

We mainly communicate through email, slack and google meets. We encourage you to check your messages atleast once a day so you don't miss anything that could be urgent.

Slack#

This is our day to day asynchronous communication way. If you need any help please send a private message to your Carcosa contact.

Issue handling#

We are using Trello and the issue systems in GitLab and GitHub to handle what needs to be done. We will in the future have a weekly google meet meeting.

Contractor agreement and NDA#

We believe that neither side would process charge against the other part if any conflicts would come up. By that a contract or an NDA are not necessary. A much better way to handle this is by building trust and need to know basis.

It's also worth mentioning that all code contribured to any repositories are copyrighted to the company owning that repository. More can be read in the licence file in each respository.

Required actions by you#

Do the following and send the result to your Carcosa contact.

  • Register an account at gitlab.com.
  • Register an account at github.com.
  • Register an account at clockify.me.
  • Decide what the email address you like to use to access trello.com.
  • Decide what the email address you like to use to access slack.com.
  • Register an account at wise.com or provide your bank account details.

Required actions by Carcosa#

  • Setup and give appropriate access to gitlab.com.
  • Setup and give appropriate access to github.com.
  • Setup and give appropriate access to clockify.me.
  • Setup and give appropriate access to trello.com.
  • Setup and give appropriate access to slack.com.
  • Setup and give appropriate access to wise.com.