Distributed

Agile

Teams

April 30, 201411 am PDT

PANELISTS

Silvana GaiaTechnical Solutions Consultant

José “Pepe” GramagliaProgram Manager

Lorraine Maffi DoddsProject Leader

DISTRIBUTED AGILE TEAMS

KEY TOPICS

to address for successful

Distributed Agile Teams.

TOPICS

• Challenges

• Size & Location

• Profiles

• Workload

• Agile Activites and Artifacts

• Roles

CHALLENGES

• Communication

• Leadership

• Cultural differences

SIZE & LOCATION

Team Size

Depending on scope, 5 to 12 engineers per

team

Location

Hiring globally accelerates project ramp up.

Good communication skills

Enjoy team work

Committed and passionate

Empathy with cultural diversity

Creative

Action and quality oriented

PROFILES

WORK LOAD

Sprint 0

Story points and Velocity

Pre Planning

STORY POINTS RECAP

It’s a high level estimation

It’s not perfect. It’s better to be almost right than completely wrong.

Is this project even possible?

THE FIBONACCI SEQUENCE

1 2 3 5 8 13…

PLANNING POKER

CONTRIBUTION

PLANNING POKER RULES

Agree on the meaning of 1 2 3 5 …For each User Story

1. Do an individual guess2. Show your card3. Smallest and biggest number

justify their estimation.4. A second round may be required to

get an agreement

DISTRIBUTED

PLANNING

POKER

www.planningpoker.com

AGILE

ACTIVITIES

Sprint Planning

Daily Scrums

Demo

Retro

DAILY MEETING

ARTIFACTS

Product Backlog

Sprint Backlog

Burndown Chart

BURN DOWN CHART

QUALITY & DELIVERY

Code

Quality

Code reviewsDelivery

Demos

QUALITY & DELIVERY

Code

Quality

Code reviewsDelivery

Demos

TYPICAL

ROLES

Scrum MasterProduct OwnerTeam

SPECIAL

ROLESLeaderSubject Matter Expert

Supervise code reviews

Research & SelectTechnologies

Architecture

Infrastructure setup

Technical coach

SUMMING UP

KEY TOPICSAchieve

Successful Project

OutcomeAgile Activities,Artifacts &

ToolsMeasure

Work Load & evenly

distributedSelect

adequate profiles

DetermineSize &

Location

Address Challenges

THANK YOU

Questions

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