Mastering The Method For Managing Agile Distributed Teams - Webinar Slideshow

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Distributed Agile Teams
April 30, 2014 11 am PDT
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PANELISTS
Silvana Gaia Technical Solutions Consultant
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Distributed Agile Teams

• KEY TOPICS
• to address for successful
• Distributed Agile Teams.

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Topics

• Challenges
• Size Location
• Profiles
• Workload
• Agile Activites and Artifacts
• Roles

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Challenges

• Communication
• Leadership
• Cultural differences

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Size Location
Team Size Depending on scope, 5 to 12 engineers
per team
Location Hiring globally accelerates project
ramp up.
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Profiles
Good communication skills Enjoy team
work Committed and passionate Empathy with
cultural diversity Creative Action and
quality oriented
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Work Load

• Sprint 0
• Story points and Velocity
• Pre Planning

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STORY POINTS RECAP
Its a high level estimation Its not perfect.
Its better to be almost right than completely
wrong. Is this project even possible?
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THE FIBONACCI SEQUENCE
1 2 3 5 8 13
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PLANNING POKER CONTRIBUTION
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PLANNING POKER RULES

• Agree on the meaning of 1 2 3 5
• For each User Story
• Do an individual guess
• Show your card
• Smallest and biggest number justify their
  estimation.
• A second round may be required to get an agreement

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DISTRIBUTED PLANNING POKER
www.planningpoker.com
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Agile Activities
Daily Scrums
Demo
Sprint Planning
Retro
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DAILY MEETING
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Artifacts

• Product Backlog
• Sprint Backlog
• Burndown Chart

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Burn Down Chart
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Quality Delivery
Code Quality Code reviews
Delivery Demos
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Quality Delivery
Code Quality Code reviews
Delivery Demos
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Typical Roles
Scrum Master Product Owner Team
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Special Roles
Leader Subject Matter Expert
Research Select Technologies
Architecture
Infrastructure setup
Technical coach
Supervise code reviews
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Summing Up Key Topics
Achieve Successful Project Outcome
Agile Activities,Artifacts Tools
Measure Work Load evenly distributed
Select adequate profiles
DetermineSize Location
Address Challenges
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THANK YOU
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