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Offshore Agile Teams
Andre Wilkerson
Slide2Collocated is Always preferred
“The early agile literature was adamant about two things:
1)stick with small teams.
2)put everyone in one room.
However, in the years since the Agile Manifesto, the increasing popularity of agile and the dramatic improvements it brings has pushed it onto larger and larger projects.”
Slide3Collocated is Always preferred
“Additionally, having an entire team--especially on a large project--in one room, or even one building is a luxury no longer enjoyed by many projects. With multi-team projects being the reality, you need to know how to scale and how to work with agile distributed teams”.
– Mike Cohn
Slide44 Areas of Influence
Common Language
Culture
Communication
Common Vision (INCEPTION FRAMEWORK)
Slide5Common Language :Take time to learn the Agile umbrella.
Slide6Common Language
Framework VS Methodology.
Agile-Scrum :Practices and methodologies that can be supported
by the Scrum framework.
Do your homework! Scrum, Crystal and lean are legitimate;
Kanbazi listed on the previous slide seems to be the invention of Mohammas Sami in a group with 12 followers on LinkedIn.
Slide7Common Language :Take time to learn the Agile umbrella.
Slide8Culture : Embrace it!
Quien aquí habla Español
Estudié español durante 3 semestres entonces yo practicaba cada oportunidad. Me encanta el idioma.
¿Lo dije bien?
Slide9Culture
Mexico teammates would teach me on Spanish word every day.
Mexico teammates would all submit themes for Sprint names in both
English and Spanish an explain the meanings to each other.(e.g. a feast
for U.I’s)
Always…Always…Always ask about the various Holidays ! ! !
Slide10Culture
Holidays
http://www.officeholidays.com
In India only the secular Holidays of Republic Day, Independence Day and Mahatma Gandhi’s Birthday are observed Nationally. (India)
Major movie releases can be observed in grandiose fashion (Milking)
Slide11Culture
http://www.officeholidays.com/
Slide12Culture
In India the opening of a Major film can be an ostentatious event with fans mobbing the theater and pouring milk on the cardboard cut outs of the actors for luck.
A lot of music found on soundtracks of modern Indian films mirror the production of American Pop.
There is a deeper understanding of the song writer, producer, performer and soundtrack details than the average American(*)
Slide13Communication
Make all communication visible to the team using, “What's App” “Slack” Yammer
https://
standupjack
.com/
Standup Jack
is a Slack Bot for your Standups. Each weekday at a time of your choosing, Jack will message you a few questions.
Web cams are a must!
There is no INDIA team!
Slide14Common Vision (INCEPTION FRAMEWORK)
What is it?
The Agile Inception Deck is a one page overview of a product, project or release. It contains 10 questions you should ask yourself and your stakeholders before starting. The first question is the purpose of the product developed, the reason why we even work on it. The answer to this question usually doesn’t change, the other 9 questions do change. If they do this should trigger communication with customers or end-users. This deck is a practice to make your project more transparent.
Slide15Common Vision (INCEPTION FRAMEWORK)
1.Why are we here?
2. The elevator pitch
3. Business vision
4. Objectives and scope
5. Organizational context
6. Logical scope
7. Technical vision
8. Risk management
9. Project estimates
10. Trade-off sliders
Slide16INCEPTION FRAMEWORK
The Why are we here? slide is a reminder to the assembled team what the business and departmental objectives are. It is so easy to get caught up in the day to-day minutia of work that people often forget why they are there in the first place and who the company’s customers are.
Slide17The elevator pitch is taken from Gordon Moore’s
book “Crossing the Chasm”. The point of the elevator
pitch is to distill the essence of the project down to one
compelling sentence. For [target customer] who
[statement of the need or opportunity] the [product
name] is a [product category] that [key benefit,
compelling reason to buy] unlike [primary competitive
alternative] our product [statement of primary
differentiation].
Slide18Business vision is a fun exercise where the team is
asked to picture the project as if it were advertised on a
cereal box. Here the team is encouraged to think of
their project as a product and choose those terms and
phrases that would be most compelling to buyers.
Slide19Objectives and scope is perhaps one of the most
powerful slides in the deck. When projects have multiple stakeholders, each is going to have a take on what the objectives and scope are.
Slide20The Organizational context slide is about identifying which entities within the organization you will need to build relationships with and make a part of your project’s success.
Slide21Logical scope is about getting our head around the size
and complexity of the project. The goal is to create a
high-level one page visual so that anyone can quickly
get a sense of how big the system is.
Slide22The purpose of the Technical vision is to get a sense of the complexity, architecture, and technologies involved in the implementation of the system.
Slide23Risk management is one of those un-sexy, naysayer exercises that many people would be happy doing without.
Slide24The Project estimates slide is about presenting the team’s best guess to those two important questions. With this information they can set their bosses’ expectations and allocate capital accordingly.
Slide25The trade off sliders are about bringing clarity to what
trade-offs are to be made during the execution of the
project.
Slide26Agile Project Initiation Techniques – The Inception Deck & Boot Camp
by Jonathan Rasmusson
ThoughtWorks Australia Pty Ltd, Level 7, 16 O’Connell Street Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2000 jr@thoughtworks.com (jr@cambrianhouse.com)