Implementing Agile In Distributed Teams

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Implementing Agile in distributed teams - Presented by Sreekanth Tadipatri

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Today’s Agenda

Overview

Distributed team - challenges

Project teams practices

Project manager practices

Organizational practices

Summary

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Overview: business picture

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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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Today’s Agenda

Overview

Distributed team challenges

Project teams practices

Project manager practices

Organizational practices

Summary

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Challenges in distributed teams

• Strategic• Communication • Cultural• Technical - Requirements, Architecture • Access to expertise• Team dynamics• Security

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Today’s Agenda

Overview Distributed team challenges

Project teams practices

Project manager practices

Organizational practices

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Project teams practices

• Team selection and preparation

• Cultural awareness

• Team Mentor

• Early bonding

• Short engagements

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Project teams practices

• Team space

• Together

• Iteration Connect

• Completion United

• Smart Meetings

• Team Connector

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Today’s Agenda

Overview Distributed team challenges Project teams practices

Project manager practices

Organizational practices

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Project manager practices

• One Project

• Communication Strategy

• Common Information Infrastructure

• Living Process

• Common Development Environment

• Flexibility

• Full Credit

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Today’s Agenda

Overview Distributed team challenges Project teams practices Project manager practices

Organizational practices

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Organizational practices

•Unified Worldwide Workforce

•Company Support of Distributed Teams

•Technology for Distributed Teams

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Today’s Agenda

Overview Distributed team challenges Project teams practices Project manager practices Organizational practices

Summary