Distributed Development is becoming more popular nowadays. Developers with different locations, time zones, languages and cultures collaborate to achieve a single goal. In this presentation, I share some lessons learned from a extremely distributed project so people can achieve success in such a challenging environment like this.

1. distributed
agile development
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2. 1
out of
3
agile teams are distributed
(7th Annual State of Agile Dev Survey - 2012)

6. Frequency of communication
The Allen Curve
30 meters
Distance

7. distributing is becoming
easier
and more
frequent

8. distributed projects fail
2x
more often
(Agility at Scale Survey: Results from the Summer 2012 DDJ State of the IT Union Survey)

9. distributed
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10. 12 people
4 offices
3 countries
3 companies
3 time zones

11. why should I use
AGILE?

12. agigel
á li

15. gil
á

16. how to
MAKE IT WORK?

17. )
(a
ga
in
learn how to
communicate

20. Hey, guys, can I sthudown the test instance?
Hey, take a look at this
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuA-7YsD5cI
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wow!
lol
Have you seen Silvio Santos video?
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amazing!!!
everybody is talking about that… nonsense, man
he is getting old
I shut it down, ok
I think it is fakse
but it still funny
huahuahuahau
Hey, who shut down the test instance?????
I was running a test there
I told you guys I was going to shut it down...

21. meet
(yes, in person)

25. use the right
tools
to decrease the
distance

29. maybe write more
documentation

34. acknowledge the
differences

35. acceptance
of power
difference
result
orientation
individualism
long term
orientation
uncertainty
avoidance
(The five dimensions of Hofsted)

36. and the most important...

37. empower
the team

38. distributed
agile development
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