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Offshore outsourcing and Agile for AgileTour Vilnius
The document discusses offshore software development and relationships between onshore and offshore teams. It emphasizes that relationships should be the priority over processes and tools. Different types of relationships are discussed, including customer-contractor relationships and treating offshore teams like friends or family. The document advocates for onsite visits, pair programming, celebrations, and other efforts to build strong interpersonal connections between distributed teams.
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- 1. @alexeykri krivitsky@scrumguides.com metaphors, advices and ideas on Alexey Krivitsky offshore software development agile coach @ scrumguides www.scrumoffshore.net
- 2. because agile isan adventure www.scrumguides.com
- 3. I am fromUkraine. “Ukraine is a software developing country”.
- 6. agileee.org www.agileukraine.org scrumguides.com lego4scrum.com
- 7. Few weeks back I did a talk at #ALE2011 IN BERLIN -‐ A SYMBOLIC PLACE OF FREEDOM.
- 8. When we’re talking about offshoring -‐ THE WALL IS THERE.
- 9. subcontracting distributed dev customer-contractor equal level relationships of authority across all teams outsourcing transfer of work to external contractor offshoring team extension .. to another country employees of another company are integrated into onshore nearshoring .. to a neighboring country
- 10. subcontracting distributed dev customer-contractor equal level relationships of authority across all teams outsourcing offshoring team extension nearshoring they do it for us down there we do it with them there
- 11. “Offshoring shiAing work to a distant organizaCon in order to reduce producCon costs”
- 12. A place where you can fail your projects at lower costs
- 13. Offshoring has hidden costs
- 14. Offshore Software Development… works with scrum inefficient cheap risky works terrible slow #$%^& boring scalable
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- 19. Individuals and interactionsover processes and tools
- 20. Individuals and interactionsover processes and tools
- 21. Relationships Individuals and interactionsover processes and tools
- 23. Parts of thewhole tools processes relationships
- 24. Parts of thewhole ✓ tools ✓ processes relationships
- 25. Parts of thewhole ✓ tools ✓ processes relationships are the roots
- 26. BUILDING A TEAM is like building a family 1. dating 2. moving in STAFF UP START UP 4. having kids 3. getting flow SCALE UP SPEED UP
- 27. RELATIONSHIPS are starting here dating moving in STAFF UP START UP SCALE UP SPEED UP Alexey, tell us a story!
- 28. So why don’tstart shoreless?
- 29. do first sprintstogether take the team onsite do short sprints to generate small wins celebrate often do parties not retrospectives stay with your team so that they can feel your culture
- 30. Is it expenses or investments?
- 31. RELATIONSHIPS are starting here dating moving in STAFF UP START UP there are different kinds of relaConships including “a kind of relaConship”
- 32. One kind ofrelationships customer contractor it’s coming! yes, sir!
- 33. Power Distance Index by Professor Geert Hofstede Sweden:31 Russia:93 USA:40 India:77 Brazil:69 hQp://www.kwintessenCal.co.uk/map/hofstede-‐power-‐distance-‐index.html
- 34. Another kind ofrelationships Who are those people you’d do everything you can for? Who are those people you’d gladly be keeping you commitments for?
- 36. So why don’tmake friends?
- 37. build friendly atmosphere face-to-facemeetings & pairing play as a team group activities over “I decided” don’t expect results focus on relationship and learning go for lunches together know what your new people feel
- 38. Is it expenses or investments?
- 39. Treat your offshoreteam as if they were: 1) your spouse 2) your friends 3) your ???
- 40. offices of offshorevendors may look differently
- 41. But deep intheir nature they all are like this
- 42. If our teams were kids what hiring would look like? Alexey, tell us an example!
- 43. don’t delegate hiring comeoffsite for interviews don’t hire people you don’t like choose hires 1) as people, 2) then as professionals hires will help to hire hire a local leader first then keep hiring together test people by “moving them in” make sure people fit into your culture and share your values
- 44. Is it expenses or investments?
- 45. Treat your offshoreteam as if they were 1) your spouse 2) your friends & 3) your kids
- 46.