Implementing Agile In Distributed Teams

Implementing Agile in distributed teams - Presented by Sreekanth Tadipatri

Today’s Agenda
Overview
Distributed team - challenges
Project teams practices
Project manager practices
Organizational practices
Summary

Overview: business picture
Transnational corporations (TNCs), number 63,000 parent firms with about 690,000 foreign affiliates, span virtually all countries and economic activities.

Overview: business picture
IT is fundamental to effective global operations in two primary ways:
providing a coordination mechanism for geographically dispersed activities
facilitating the reshaping of the separate organizations into global cooperatives
Majority of Fortune 500 firms actively engage in global software development practices

Overview: Global IT challenges
IT development and support is an inherently complex social process that is communication and coordination intensive
"Going global" heightens complexities due to cultural, language, and organizational differences

Overview: Types of teams
Teams with developers, testers, users and/or other team members working at more than one location .
Teams engaging with third-party partners - consultants, vendors, even customers in more than one location .

Agile Manifesto
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan

Today’s Agenda
Overview
Distributed team challenges
Summary

Challenges in distributed teams
Strategic
Communication
Cultural
Technical - Requirements, Architecture
Access to expertise
Team dynamics
Security

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Summary

Team selection and preparation
Cultural awareness
Team Mentor
Early bonding
Short engagements

Team space
Together
Iteration Connect
Completion United
Smart Meetings
Team Connector

Today’s Agenda
Overview
Summary

One Project
Communication Strategy
Common Information Infrastructure
Living Process
Common Development Environment
Flexibility
Full Credit

Today’s Agenda
Overview
Summary

Unified Worldwide Workforce
Company Support of Distributed Teams
Technology for Distributed Teams

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