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Sreekanth Tadipatri's presentation at Agile Goa 2007 conference. http://agileindia.org/agilegoa07/index
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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
Summary
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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
Summary
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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
Summary
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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
