Agile with Remote Teams

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1. Agile with Remote Teams @coxandrew Andrew Cox
2. In my inbox this morning
3. “[W]e have distilled our experience and advice down to the following: Don’t do it.” – Craig Larman & Bas Vodde
4. The Way
5. ... we need to be working side- by-side. That is why it is critical that we are all present in our offices. Speed and quality are often sacrificed when we work from home. We need to be one Yahoo!, and that starts with physically being together. – Marissa Mayer, Yahoo!
6. “It's 'all hands on deck' at Best Buy”
7. “We don't really telecommute at Zappos.”
8. That’s one of the great things about remote work, is that all the other human stuff, the B.S., fades away. – Jason Fried
10. If you provide the right technology to keep in touch, maintain regular communication and get the right balance between remote and office working, people will be motivated to work responsibly, quickly and with high quality. – Richard Branson, Virgin
12. Communication 1 Communication Communication
13. Communication Empathy
14. Communication “... we understand and truly believe that everyone did the best job they could ...” – Retrospective Prime Directive
15. Communication TRUST
16. Team Visits are Critical Communication
17. Communication Medium choose your
18. Communication •IM •Chat Rooms •Email •Phone •Meeting •Wiki
19. Communication Tacticals weekly or bi-weekly
20. Clarity 2
21. Clarity Roles & Responsibilities
22. Clarity Guiding Principles Make clear
23. Clarity Simplicity over more features Quality over scope and deadlines Sustainable pace over heroic hours Customer Development over “users don’t know what they want” Emergent Design over complete API specification
24. Clarity Priorities
25. Clarity Visible Make everything
27. Clarity Same Page Get on the
28. Good Business Practices 3
29. Business Practices Vision
30. Business Practices Business Plan
31. Business Practices Lean Canvas
32. Business Practices Team Buy-in Getting
33. Business Practices Good Meeting How to run a
34. • Don’t have a meeting if you don’t need to • Limit the number of attendees • Distribute an agenda in advance • Meetings must result in action items • Start and end on schedule Business Practices Read this before your next meeting
35. Business Practices
36. Process
37. Process Channels Identify your
38. Process WHO Makes the call?
39. Process Backlog High-Level
40. Process Epic Backlog
41. Process Inception Project
42. Process Inception Deck
43. Process Science Fairs Monthly
44. Process Open Source
45. Process Pull Requests Discussion Code Review Design
46. Tools
47. Process Individuals & Interactions over processes and tools
48. Process Do you want to know? WHAT
49. Status Dashboard (Radiator)
50. Project Tracking (PivotalTracker)
51. Open Source (GitHub Enterprise)
52. Team Chat (HipChat)
53. Daily Standup (Google Hangouts)
54. Google Docs
55. Challenges
56. • Inter-team dependencies (related: Silos) • Prioritization (aka: Who’s in charge?) • Getting team buy-in • Tool unification police • Retrospectives, brainstorming • UX • Travel budget Challenges
57. • “Read This Before Your Next Meeting” http://www.amazon.com/Read-This-Before-Meeting-ebook/dp/B0057ZER34/ • Tactical Meeting Template http://www.tablegroup.com/books/dbm/Weekly%20Tactical%20Meeting%20Guide.pdf • “Scaling Lean & Agile Development” http://www.amazon.com/Scaling-Lean-Agile-Development-Organizational/dp/0321480961/ • Lean Canvas http://leancanvas.com/ • How to Start a Science Fair https://agiletools.wordpress.com/tag/science-fair/ • The Agile Inception Deck http://agilewarrior.wordpress.com/2010/11/06/the-agile-inception-deck/ References
58. Questions? @coxandrew Andrew Cox