! How we run Support at GitHub
OSDC 2014: Mike Adolphs - How we run Support at GitHub
Jun 10, 2015
Operations people often strive for the perfect solution. But is that really effective? To answer that question for yourself, you’ll have to spend some time doing support! Here at GitHub developers help out with support on a regular basis, leading to a better experience for our customers. Some even work on both: half development, half support. I'm going to show you why I think support is awesome and how it benefits your work!
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!How we run Support at GitHub
!!Why help out with
Customer Support?
!!Someone talking about
Support, … here?
GitHub makes it easier to worktogether than to work alone!
!!Ermahgerd, why Support?
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Huge props to the GitHub Supportocats! Avatars had a gnarly caching issue that generated a fair number of support requests. !
I also got to work with a bunch of new Hubbers I haven't worked with before, so that's always fun.
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!!Core principles
NO FIGHTS
NO INSULTS
NO EXCUSES
NO SUPERPOWERS
NO ADVERTISING
tl;dr: Be a human! Be nice!
!!Birth of a Superfan™!
User: Totally loving what you did with the Windows client and been loyally using it since it came out. But does it really need to take up 2.5GB of space? :(
User: Totally loving what you did with your Windows client and been loyally using it since it came out. But does it really need to take up 2.5GB of space? :(
Paul Betts: That's totally not cool (and not expected)! Can you tell us specifically which folders are taking up so much space?
Paul Betts: That's totally not cool (and not expected)! Can you tell us specifically which folders are taking up so much space?
User: Totally loving what you did with your Windows client and been loyally using it since it came out. But does it really need to take up 2.5GB of space? :(
User: As soon as I get back home, I'll send you the juicy details. That will happen tomorrow. !I must say I'm positively surprised by your responsiveness. Thought it would take a day or two at the least for any reply to arrive!
User: We're starting to experience increasingly frequent connectivity errors from our Microsoft azure virtual machine to github. !We get a connection error a majority of the time.
Microsoft: As the plan currently stands, any customer reporting this problem will be directed to open a new case with Microsoft, but to reference case #123. This will allow us to coordinate the work on both sides until we can figure this out. It will also eliminate the confusion caused when GitHub or customers reference the old case #123.
Microsoft: As the plan currently stands, any customer reporting this problem will be directed to open a new case with Microsoft, but to reference case #123. This will allow us to coordinate the work on both sides until we can figure this out. !We will still work with individual customers until we have a solid repro, but we will also keep the master case updated with the associated cases and any specific findings. !P.S. When I am back in the office on Monday, let's talk about how we can manage the individual cases that come in.
User: We're starting to experience increasingly frequent connectivity errors from our Microsoft azure virtual machine to github. !We get a connection error a majority of the time.
!!Why help out?
Stable service
Valuable insights
Other applications
Who? Them!
Learning by doing
!Thanks!
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