Scaling Scrum hurts. There are coordination challenges, technical challenges, and communication challenges. But there are some patterns you can use to overcome these pains. This is an experience report from a 30+ person 5 team scaled Scrum project. It gives you practical tips on what to try if you experience any of the pains we did when we scaled Scrum.
Distributed Agile, What Types of Agile to use webinar presentation by Anna Ob...Return on Intelligence
Presentation by Anna Obukhova for Exigen Services webinar Distributed Agile, what types of Agile to use that was held online on Ovember, 11 2010
Exigen Services webinars schedule is avialable at:
http://www.exigenservices.ru/webinars
Can agile frameworks help small development teams? After looking at some agile basics, I examine two projects where a small development team used scrum. Agile can be used by small teams to their advantage with commitment and some work.
Rex - How User Stories can help you manage standard components of an IT projectJean-François Nguyen
What is the link between your User Story catalogue and Data Model, Data Dictionary, Entity life cycle, all your tests (dynamic, static, ...).
Warning: subject a little bit technical ;-)
In this talk presented at the Collaborate14 conference, learn 10 tactics to help you rollout a cost and schedule integrated solution for Primavera P6 -....spoiler....it's all about the users!
Scaling Scrum hurts. There are coordination challenges, technical challenges, and communication challenges. But there are some patterns you can use to overcome these pains. This is an experience report from a 30+ person 5 team scaled Scrum project. It gives you practical tips on what to try if you experience any of the pains we did when we scaled Scrum.
Distributed Agile, What Types of Agile to use webinar presentation by Anna Ob...Return on Intelligence
Presentation by Anna Obukhova for Exigen Services webinar Distributed Agile, what types of Agile to use that was held online on Ovember, 11 2010
Exigen Services webinars schedule is avialable at:
http://www.exigenservices.ru/webinars
Can agile frameworks help small development teams? After looking at some agile basics, I examine two projects where a small development team used scrum. Agile can be used by small teams to their advantage with commitment and some work.
Rex - How User Stories can help you manage standard components of an IT projectJean-François Nguyen
What is the link between your User Story catalogue and Data Model, Data Dictionary, Entity life cycle, all your tests (dynamic, static, ...).
Warning: subject a little bit technical ;-)
In this talk presented at the Collaborate14 conference, learn 10 tactics to help you rollout a cost and schedule integrated solution for Primavera P6 -....spoiler....it's all about the users!
Advantages & Benefits of Kanban for Software Teams - Part 2 of "How to build ...Blossom IO Inc.
Part 2 of the "How to build the best Software Products" Series, brought to you by Blossom.co
Tips on how to and why you build the best products with Kanban, effectively.
Advantages & Benefits:
1. Continuous Delivery
2. No Estimations
3. Iterative Workflow
4. Continuous Improvement
5. Seamless Communication
6. Cycle Time
7. Reduction of Waste
8. Frequent Shipping, faster Feedback
9. No Planning Overhead, less Meetings
10. Reduced PM Overhead
11. Focus on Quality
12. Pull Principle
13. Never miss Blockers
14. Push Notifications with Integrations
15. One-click Analytics
Scrum vs Kanban | What are the differences between Scrum and Kanban | EdurekaEdureka!
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/GLFuzBiy18o
** Certified Scrum Master Training: https://www.edureka.co/certified-scrum-master-certification-training **
This Edureka PPT on "Scrum vs Kanban" tell you about both of the said AGILE-based Frameworks. You will get an overview of the principles and practices of Scrum and Kanban and how they are similar to and different from each other.
What is Scrum?
What is Kanban?
How are they similar?
How are they different?
Scrum vs Kanban
Which one should you choose?
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Workshop 'Facilitation Dojo' at ScrumGathering Praque_2015Peter Beck
Facilitation Dojo
Andreas Schliep, Peter Beck
We provide this Facilitation Dojo as a platform for safe learning and exchange about facilitation techniques, pitfalls und secrets.
Learning Objectives:
- Provide an engaging and inspiring environment for an event
Deal with disturbances and interruptions
- Address conflicts and help the parties to navigate through them
Collect ideas and organize them into topics
- Understand the origin of the word facilitate and live to it
See more at: https://www.scrumalliance.org/courses-events/events/global-gatherings/2015/prague-2015#sthash.9vEzZnhG.dpuf
If you are interested in Agile software development, Scrum might be the first Agile methodology you have learnt. The problem is it might not fit your work environment. Let’s explore another methodology that stands the test of time. There are many people out there discovered that Lean/Kanban is more suitable for their environment than other methodologies. See, you might be one of those.
Implementing Scrum for large scale projects (@DCB14)Biser Simeonov
This presentation is based on a real life experience trying to implement Scrum methodology for one of our large-scale Drupal projects in the Municipality of Copenhagen. I'll be focusing on what our approach is, what challenges the team is facing along the project execution and the lessons learned.
Beside all successful stories related to how flexible, how fancy and dev friendly the idealistic Scrum approach is, I will be discussing with you also some of the most critical topics from project management perspective. This is why I’ll put extra focus on how Scrum works in an ideal world and what are the challenges implementing it for a real project:
• Why Scrum is good enough to be applied for a complex Drupal project;
• Defining and understanding well enough the different roles in Scrum;
• “Self-organized team” or how the production team's mindset should be changed;
• Is there an option to deliver a Scrum project with already predefined scope and fixed budget;
• User stories definition , acceptance criteria, technical debt, retrospective meetings: do we really need to take care of these;
• The most common mistakes understanding Scrum and how to prevent them;
• Tips that will lead us to a successful project delivery using Scrum;
An introduction to the basic principles and practices of scrum. This presentation is designed to help convince your boss or colleagues that agile practices such as scrum have a solid set of theories behind them and a useful set of tools to implement them. There are also examples of success stories as well as how to learn more. The presentation is designed to be used by someone who already knows a bit about scrum, and wants to explain it to someone else. Some of the slides are cues for the speaker, so let me know if you find any of it confusing.
Implementing Scrum for Drupal Projects – a successful story and some failures...Biser Simeonov
Basically I will talk about a real life experience trying to implement Scrum methodology on some of our projects, what is our approach and what challenges the team is facing along the project execution. Beside all successful stories related to how flexible, how fancy and dev friendly the Scrum approach it is, I will be focusing also on some of the most critical topics from project management perspective. This is why I’ll put extra focus on:
• How Scrum works in an ideal world?
• Is there an option to deliver a Scrum project with already predefined scope and fixed budget?
• How to improve our planning about the features we can deliver within a single sprint – ‘black ninja’ VS ‘conservative’ estimations?
• How to explain to clients and sales guys what Scrum actually is?
• Is there such an animal as “self-organized team” and if yes, what the PM actually is doing there?
Overview of SCRUM development process. I put this together to present to my company/group.
Most slides are "borrowed" from Alan Shalloway's presentation.
Advantages & Benefits of Kanban for Software Teams - Part 2 of "How to build ...Blossom IO Inc.
Part 2 of the "How to build the best Software Products" Series, brought to you by Blossom.co
Tips on how to and why you build the best products with Kanban, effectively.
Advantages & Benefits:
1. Continuous Delivery
2. No Estimations
3. Iterative Workflow
4. Continuous Improvement
5. Seamless Communication
6. Cycle Time
7. Reduction of Waste
8. Frequent Shipping, faster Feedback
9. No Planning Overhead, less Meetings
10. Reduced PM Overhead
11. Focus on Quality
12. Pull Principle
13. Never miss Blockers
14. Push Notifications with Integrations
15. One-click Analytics
Scrum vs Kanban | What are the differences between Scrum and Kanban | EdurekaEdureka!
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/GLFuzBiy18o
** Certified Scrum Master Training: https://www.edureka.co/certified-scrum-master-certification-training **
This Edureka PPT on "Scrum vs Kanban" tell you about both of the said AGILE-based Frameworks. You will get an overview of the principles and practices of Scrum and Kanban and how they are similar to and different from each other.
What is Scrum?
What is Kanban?
How are they similar?
How are they different?
Scrum vs Kanban
Which one should you choose?
Follow us to never miss an update in the future.
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/edurekaIN
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/edureka
Castbox: https://castbox.fm/networks/505?country=in
Workshop 'Facilitation Dojo' at ScrumGathering Praque_2015Peter Beck
Facilitation Dojo
Andreas Schliep, Peter Beck
We provide this Facilitation Dojo as a platform for safe learning and exchange about facilitation techniques, pitfalls und secrets.
Learning Objectives:
- Provide an engaging and inspiring environment for an event
Deal with disturbances and interruptions
- Address conflicts and help the parties to navigate through them
Collect ideas and organize them into topics
- Understand the origin of the word facilitate and live to it
See more at: https://www.scrumalliance.org/courses-events/events/global-gatherings/2015/prague-2015#sthash.9vEzZnhG.dpuf
If you are interested in Agile software development, Scrum might be the first Agile methodology you have learnt. The problem is it might not fit your work environment. Let’s explore another methodology that stands the test of time. There are many people out there discovered that Lean/Kanban is more suitable for their environment than other methodologies. See, you might be one of those.
Implementing Scrum for large scale projects (@DCB14)Biser Simeonov
This presentation is based on a real life experience trying to implement Scrum methodology for one of our large-scale Drupal projects in the Municipality of Copenhagen. I'll be focusing on what our approach is, what challenges the team is facing along the project execution and the lessons learned.
Beside all successful stories related to how flexible, how fancy and dev friendly the idealistic Scrum approach is, I will be discussing with you also some of the most critical topics from project management perspective. This is why I’ll put extra focus on how Scrum works in an ideal world and what are the challenges implementing it for a real project:
• Why Scrum is good enough to be applied for a complex Drupal project;
• Defining and understanding well enough the different roles in Scrum;
• “Self-organized team” or how the production team's mindset should be changed;
• Is there an option to deliver a Scrum project with already predefined scope and fixed budget;
• User stories definition , acceptance criteria, technical debt, retrospective meetings: do we really need to take care of these;
• The most common mistakes understanding Scrum and how to prevent them;
• Tips that will lead us to a successful project delivery using Scrum;
An introduction to the basic principles and practices of scrum. This presentation is designed to help convince your boss or colleagues that agile practices such as scrum have a solid set of theories behind them and a useful set of tools to implement them. There are also examples of success stories as well as how to learn more. The presentation is designed to be used by someone who already knows a bit about scrum, and wants to explain it to someone else. Some of the slides are cues for the speaker, so let me know if you find any of it confusing.
Implementing Scrum for Drupal Projects – a successful story and some failures...Biser Simeonov
Basically I will talk about a real life experience trying to implement Scrum methodology on some of our projects, what is our approach and what challenges the team is facing along the project execution. Beside all successful stories related to how flexible, how fancy and dev friendly the Scrum approach it is, I will be focusing also on some of the most critical topics from project management perspective. This is why I’ll put extra focus on:
• How Scrum works in an ideal world?
• Is there an option to deliver a Scrum project with already predefined scope and fixed budget?
• How to improve our planning about the features we can deliver within a single sprint – ‘black ninja’ VS ‘conservative’ estimations?
• How to explain to clients and sales guys what Scrum actually is?
• Is there such an animal as “self-organized team” and if yes, what the PM actually is doing there?
Overview of SCRUM development process. I put this together to present to my company/group.
Most slides are "borrowed" from Alan Shalloway's presentation.
ANI | Flow Based Development- A Venture of the 5G Development Team | Ravindra...AgileNetwork
Abstract:
As a process coach from a 3 person team of IL (Industrial Logic) coaches, he coached this 5G software development team to move from Scrum (mandated process) to a much leaner Scrumban process, teaching the team value of flow-based development, in conjunction with team practices such as distributed mob programming and behavior-driven dev/ testing. It a very short presentation about this case study.
This session will provide a high level view of Scrum and some of the tools provided in VS 2010 and TFS that allows teams to self-manage and produce high quality software increments iteration after iteration.
This session will also present the theory behind emergent architecture and how it is handled in Scrum.
This is a presentation that Margaret Menzies has used to introduce myself to new teams. The last section is an executive summary of Scrum methodology and a basic implementation schedule.
Do you know how to lead the team? Which actions are effective and which are just myths? Where this knowledge comes from? Last years gave us an amazing opportunity to use hard science to transform leadership effectiveness. Neuroscience and data about how our brain works allows to rethink what we are doing as leaders and how to improve teamwork and change the process so our brain is used as effective as possible.
Fragile Agile coaching a tired team (for Agile Kitchen Prague)Anna Obukhova
As an Agile Coach or Scrum Master do you want to add energy to your team that looks not enthusiastic or resists change? Is is possible to cause harm to your team even with proper Agile coaching? Yes, if you are working with tired, exhausted or even burned-out teams, they do need special treatment, usually counterintuitive to the coaches. Would you like to learn special set of actions, taken from the medical practice, tailored to work with exhausted people? Would you like to experience an upward spiral from tiredness to the true intristic motivation and creativity? Join me in the self test and practical steps discussion what needs to be modified in the coaching and facilitation techniques and in the Agile process that you as a coach or a scrum master can help your worn out team to transition into a better process and produce steady results.
Mеняем Mindset в agile сторону, Анна ОбуховаAnna Obukhova
«Высший пилотаж изменений - меняем Mindset в Agile сторону»
Опыт внедрения Agile принципов показывает и ведущие эксперты подтверждают важность наличия Agile Mindset как у команды, так и у компании в целом как одного из важнейших условий стабильного успеха. Но что делать если его нет или есть заметная возможность улучшения и это влияет на результаты работы? Менять – звучат предложения. Но как? Mindset – это набор убеждений, ограничений и привычек мышления, который формируется к примерно 18 годам и он практически неизменен извне. И это хорошо, это то что формирует вашу личность. Представьте себе что вдруг приходит к вам коуч, проводит тренинг и все, вы мыслите совершенно по-новому, так как хочет другой человек. По-моему это страшно. Но mindset и не 100% фиксирован. Изменение mindset это пожалуй, самое сложное изменение, но оно возможно. Есть 2 пути изменения (в себе и в других): первый - это изменение мышления через действия, второй - изменение того как мы думаем , изменение самого процесса мышления. При этом привычные техники убеждения – приведение примеров, прописывание процесса или рекомендации – не работают, а скорее делают даже хуже, приводят к сопротивлению изменениям и сложностям в управлении.
Чтобы изменить mindset и улучшить работу и взаимодействие в команде и компании нужно очень четко понимать что и зачем мы меняем, как это в принципе работает и как сделать изменение выгодным и ненасильственным для всех участников процесса.
На презентации «Высший пилотаж изменений - меняем Mindset в Agile сторону» мы вместе:
- разберем что же входит в тот Agile Mindset который мы хотим видеть в себе и в коллегах
- выявим какие действия являются проявлениями и триггерами необходимого стиля мышления
- обсудим фреймворк улучшения процесса мышления
- определим какая обстановка помогает или мешает безопасным проявлениям нового поведения и идей
Презентация AgileDays 2013
Скрам Мастер – технологии влияния
Кто такой Скрам мастер? Powerless Leader, фасилитатор, коуч, знаток процесса, я видела такие определения как ментор, помощник? Я могу согласиться с этими определениями, но в то же время я постоянно сталкиваюсь с тем, что эти определения не дают четкого понимания «а что же нам делать чтобы получить от команды или процесса нужный результат». У Скрам мастера нет пряника или кнута, нет должностной инструкции, дающей право приказывать. У него есть... влияние... таким образом получается что Скрам Мастер – это агент влияния. Уже проще, потому что влияние – это набор технологий влияния. Если знать какие технологии влияния используются в Agile процессе, какие результаты мы ожидаем и как их можно изменить или закрепить успех.
В этом докладе я разберу из каких технологий влияния состоят действия скрам мастера, приведу примеры на что направлены фасилитирующие техники и упражнения, которые рекомендуются коллегами и в литературе.
Страх, смех, круговая порука, ответные жесты, желание успеха, формулирование результата и форма подачи информации, это все те составные части из которых состоит воздействие на других людей. Скрам Мастер должен четко в этом разбираться, чтобы иметь возможность принести пользу команде и проекту.
Это не манипуляция, это влияние и чем лучше вы умеете влиять, тем успешнее ваш проект и успешнее вы как Скрам Мастер.
close to Zen style presentation for upcoming AgileDays2012 conference. Here I'm trying to explain how knowing the brain biochemistry you can build high-productive Scrum Process and that major points are already built inside Scrum framework.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
FIDO Alliance Osaka Seminar: Passkeys and the Road Ahead.pdf
Scrum distribution risk score
1. SCRUM Distribution Risk Score Anna Obukhova, Project Manager Anna.Obukhova@exigenservices.com
2. Agenda Agile – the distributed problem Why we are forced to be distributed Distribution Factors Calculate your distribution score What is different when you have high distribution score Examples of high-score team structure Recommendations
3. Why we start being distributed? Outsourcing to Low-Cost departments in one company Outsourcing to another company Follow the Sun model Merges and Acquisitions - integrate products Lack of resources Work from Home
4. Factor 1: Physical distribution Collocated Collocated Part-Time Distributed with Overlapping Work Hours Distributed with No Overlapping Work Hours
5. Factor 2: Logical team organization Isolated Scrum Distributed Scrum of Scrums Totally Integrated Scrum Flexible Scrum
6. Factor 3: Project size 1 Scrum Team - <10 members 2 Scrum Teams - < 17 members > 2 Scrum Teams - > 17 members
7. Factor 4: Product organization > 1 products independent or using each other 1 product – several integrated modules 1 product with 1 piece of functionality or highly integrated modules
8. …. 4*4*3*3 = 144 Max144 different SCRUM project organizations depending on these conditions. Lowest Distribution Score is 4 (1+1+1+1) = Collocated Isolated Small 1product). Ideal for XP and SCRUM, nice, productive, a lot of fun. Score 5-8 is normal for offshore development. Highest is 14 (4+4+3+3) Score = Flexible SCRUM, 1piece, distributed with no overlapped hours, team >20 members: project will not survive without special conditions or will have awful communication overhead.
9. We’ll discuss 2 and more teams (17 and more) Distributed with Overlapped working hours All levels of team logical distribution All types of product integration level
10. When you have Distributed teams New Roles, management overhead Project manager (not Scrum Master) Architect (Chief Tech Lead) Proxy Product Owner (Analyst) More e-mails and documentation Self documented code may be not enough Handover architectural documents Reports on progress and impediments Sub team and general Burn-Down Less Shared Code ownership Mini Demos
11. When you have Distributed teams Scrum of Scrums Horizontal communication of Peers Scrum Masters/Chief SM (PM) Tech Leads/Architect Test Leads/Project Test Lead Proxy Product Owners/Chief Product Owner Dependency management Code Resources People Time
15. So… if you face distributed one Max attention to communication, visual, personal More beer if necessary, start with team building Know your type of Distributed Agile, plan additional roles Use Kanban principle to balance the load and avoid the bottlenecks on specific roles Use Sprint Pulse to manage the meeting and communication overhead level and team communication Peers speak with peers, is your SMs do not talk to each other – you are in trouble Calculate the Load Factor – it will be different from type to type
16. Plan to decrease the distribution score Try to make your cumulative Agile distribution score as low as possible - avoid unnecessary distribution - define independent modules - Increase overlapping hours - think of smaller team - isolate Scrum where possible - any level raise treat and calculate as risk for the project And…know and practice Agile from beginning to end, better practice lower distribution level Agile before (by you or get expertise in your company).