A Practical Guide to Setting up

Distributed Agile Projects

Agile India 2014

Qualify Fit

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Delivery Setup

Early Days

Steady State

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Driver for going distributed?

Business buy-in?

Big unknowns?

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Inception team mix

Initial team building

Building stakeholder confidence

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Delivery Setup

Role distribution

Balance of power

Distribution in vertical slices

Affinity-based feature ownership

Single CI and CD pipeline

One team!

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Delivery Setup

Early Days

Rotations both ways

Video, video, video

People connect

Leading communication from

offshore

Email management

Tweaks to agile practices

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Delivery Setup

Early Days

Steady State

Keep rotations going

Celebrate small successes together

Opportunities to reduce distribution

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