Management of offshore agile projects

MANAGEMENT OF OFFSHORE AGILE PROJECTS Agile East Europe conference October 8, 2010 By Sergei Andrzeevski

INTRODUCTION

SPECIFIC OF OFFSHORE PROJECTS
Always remote customer
Often distributed development team
Different processes on customer/team sides
Slower communication
Time zone difference
Language barrier
Cultural differences

PRECONDITIONS

REQUIRED TECHNICAL TOOLS

COMMUNICATION WITH CUSTOMER

CHECKLIST FOR OFFSHORE PLANNING GAME

SCHEDULE OF PLANNING GAME

PLANNING POKER
Rules
Fibonacci numbers
Advantages
PlanningPoker.com

DAILY STAND-UPS IN DISTRIBUTED TEAM
Three SCRUM questions
All team members take part, no customer
Fixed order of the reporting
Minutes template is used
SCRUM master fills minutes online
Minutes in English

EACH DAY AS A PROJECT

TRACKING
Motivation, reporting, prediction
Daily time reporting
Story board is not enough
Development & testing tracked
SCRUM Master, PM, CM, architect, analyst?
Weekly status reports in Excel to customer
At least twice per week status calls

QUALITY & DISTRIBUTED TEAM Development for US Preparation of US acceptance tests Developers test US Developers fix issues Transfer to testers

DEPLOYMENT ON CUSTOMER SIDE
Technical person on customer side
Early deployment on customer side
Develop in parallel by using local system
Maximum permissions to customer system
Request list of allowed versions etc.
Clarify differences in dev/prod environments

ORGANIZATION OF SPRINT REVIEW
Huge motivation factor
More customer representatives the better
Usually on local test environment
Sharing tool + phone conf.
Test Lead is a presenter
Brief repetition in the day before
SCRUM master to write minutes

BRIEF SUMMARY

Thank you! Question? Useful books and links: Kent Beck: Extreme Programming (2002) Ken Schwaber: Agile Project Management with Scrum (2004) Planning Poker: www.planningpoker.com SCRUM management tool: www.sprintometer.com Contact info: Sergei Andrzeevski e-mail: [email_address]

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