1 year product development with a distributed team

Develop a product with a distributed team is a not trivial challenge in many ways: make the team work well, develop the product, stay on time and budget ...
In this talk we would like to share some of the experiences made in over a year long work that put us on test several times to achieve the goal.

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1. 1 YEAR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT WITH A DISTRIBUTED TEAM
3. PARTNERS
4. 7000 TRANSACTIONS / MONTH (in one hour)
6. x4 domain 2150 tests
7. IT’S NOT ABOUT NUMBERS (are pointless)
8. WE WANT TO SHARE A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT WE LEARNT
9. REMOTE WORKFORCES
10. 13 months 3 companies 7 people 4 stakeholders
11. THE GOALS ✓make the team work well ✓develop the product ✓stay on time and budget
12. CHALLENGES ‣hard to communicate ‣hard to keep track of the time ‣hard to meet and discuss
13. DISTRIBUTED TEAM (not worldwide)
15. IT’S NOT ABOUT TOOLS (sorry)
17. AGILE ITERATIONS
18. CODE REVIEW: DO SHOW YOU CARE
19. IT’S NOT ABOUT CODE (nor technologies)
20. ALWAYS EXPLAIN WHY
21. GOOD MOOD IS A VIRAL ENVIRONMENT
22. MICROMANAGE
23. YOU CAN’T CHANGE PEOPLE
24. TRUST YOUR TEAM
25. IT’S NOT (ONLY) ABOUT MANAGEMENT
26. …SO WHAT?
27. ABOVE ALL: BE COOL
28. MATZ IS NICE AND SO WE ARE NICE
30. IT’S ABOUT PEOPLE and human interactions
31. TAKEAWAYS COMMUNICATION Trust EMPATHY
34. Thank you. @realfuzzy Michele Franzin
35. CREDITS David & Goliath - http://muhayeaah.deviantart.com/ H-Factor - http://www.oae.co.uk/warm-vocal-chords-h-factor/ Obama - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ Code - https://www.denverlibrary.org/files/css_code.jpg Globe - http://www.globeatnight.org/numbers-2013.php