visibility shift in distributed teams jazoon 2013
DESCRIPTION
Contrary to common belief, (fully) distributed team can actually make it easier to adapt an agile approach to software development. Compared with the co-located group, a distributed team experiences what I call a shift in visibility. The hours spent in the office no longer count, therefore more focus is placed on actual work done and business value delivered. If your team suffers from poor communication or endless meetings, working remotely will make this even more conspicuous. See also: https://softwaremill.com/visibility-shift-in-distributed-teamsTRANSCRIPT
Visibility Shift In Distributed TeamsPaweł WrzeszczSoftwareMill
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Distributed Agile is Hard
More visible in
distributed setup:
•Value
•Communication
•Trust
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Visibility Shift
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Like Scrum
“Scrum does not solve
your problems.
It makes them more
visible.”
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Visibility
Is The First Step
Towards
Improvement
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Remote vs. Distributed
http://bob.mcwhirter.org/blog/2010/09/13/remote-worker-distributed-team/
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My Context
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My Context
than co-located,
not worse or better
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Distributed
Setup is
Different
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Value vs. Presence
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Presence at
work is not
that visible
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More important (and
visible!) than where, how
and working time.
Value Delivered
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• Notifications
• Recent
changes
• Continuous
Deployment
Focus On Value – In Practice
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Communication Challenges
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Distributed meetings
are extremely boring
Meetings
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Communication Challenges
requires fine-tuned
communication
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Narrow
channel
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• Sync vs. async
• Chat, Call, Push-To-Talk
Flexible => improve constantly
Communication Flexibility
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Technical -> Social
•At first: standard Scrum
•Now: moods
•“4-th question”
Example: Daily Company Meeting
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Trust Issues
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“They’d be browsing
Facebook”
“I have to go in person”
Trust issues
Impossible without trust
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Painfully visible in
distributed environment
Trust issues
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• F2F team
meetings
• Retrospectives
Building Trust• “4-th question”
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All in All
More visible in
distributed setup:
•Value
•Communication
•Trust
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Visibility Shift
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Visibility Shift
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