Delivered this talk at Agile Tour Bangkok 2013

1. Agile Best Practices For
Distributed Development

2. Outline
Challenges In Dist. Dev.
Agile Best Practices
Key Takeaways

3. Challenges

4. Challenges In Dist. Dev.
• Barriers to Communication and
Collaboration
• Misunderstood Requirements
• Lack of Trust
• Lack of Co-ordination
• Lack of Visibility

5. Challenges In Dist. Dev.(Contd.)
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Lack of “One Team’ Feeling
Lack of ‘Big Picture’ View
Unforeseen Risks
Lack of Common Ownership of
Code
• Cultural Insensitivity

6. Agile Best Practices

7. People
Challenges
Tools
& Infrastructure
Process

8. People

9. People
Proxy Product Owner
Collaboration with Business

10. People
Cross Pollination
Face-To-Face Communication

11. People
Cultural Sensitivity
Respect

12. People
Personal Relationships
Trust

13. Process

14. Process
Joint Stand Ups & Sign Ups
Self Organizing Team

15. Process
Joint Retrospectives
Continuous Improvement

16. Process
Showcases
Quick Feedback

17. Process
Remote Pairing
Common Code Ownership

18. Tools & Infrastructure

19. Tools
Electronic Information
Radiators
Visibility & Transparency

20. Tools
Communication
& Collaboration Tools
Communication & Collaboration

21. Infrastructure
Development & Testing
Environments
Automation

22. Infrastructure
Source Control System
Continuous Integration

23. Key Takeaways

24. Key Takeaways
Have Consistent Messaging That
Everyone Belongs
To ‘One Team’

25. Key Takeaways
Invest In Communication and
Travel

26. Key Takeaways
Always Remember,
Not Everyone Is In ‘The Room’

27. Key Takeaways
Transparency and Feedback are
Critical

28. Key Takeaways
Introduce & Evolve Engineering
Practices ASAP

29. Key Takeaways
Leverage The Distance

30. Questions?
Sunil Mundra
sunilrm@thoughtworks.com
Blog:
http://suniltalksagile.wordpress.com/

31. Thank You!