1. Visibility Shift In
Distributed Teams
Paweł Wrzeszcz
SoftwareMill

2. Distributed Agile is Hard
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3. Visibility Shift
More visible in distributed
setup:
• Value
• Communication
• Trust
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4. Like Scrum
“Scrum does not solve your
problems.
It makes them more visible.”
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5. Visibility
Is The First Step
Towards
Improvement
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6. Remote vs. Distributed
http://bob.mcwhirter.org/blog/2010/09/13/remote-worker-distributed-team/
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7. My Context
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8. My Context
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9. Distributed
Setup is
Different
than co-located,
not worse or better
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10. Value vs. Presence
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11. Presence at
work is not
that visible
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12. Value Delivered
More important (and visible!)
than where, how and working
time.
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13. Focus On Value – In Practice
• Notifications
• Recent changes
• Continuous
Deployment
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14. Communication Challenges
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15. Meetings
Distributed meetings
are extremely boring
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17. Communication Challenges
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18. Narrow channel
requires fine-tuned
communication
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19. Communication Flexibility
• Sync vs. async
• Chat, Call, Push-To-Talk
Flexible => improve constantly
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20. Example: Daily Company Meeting
Technical -> Social
• At first: standard Scrum
• Now: moods
• “4-th question”
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21. Trust Issues
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22. Trust issues
“They’d be browsing
Facebook”
“I have to go in person”
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23. Impossible without trust
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24. Trust issues
Painfully visible in
distributed environment
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25. Building Trust
• F2F team meetings
• “4-th question”
• Retrospectives
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26. All in All
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27. Visibility Shift
More visible in distributed
setup:
• Value
• Communication
• Trust
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28. Visibility Shift
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29. Images
http://www.flickr.com/photos/slackpics/4261060942/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/35764264@N00/413103429/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jenniferwoodardmaderazo/2129336572/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stressedtechy/4688073554/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28676221@N08/6131096126
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Van_Gogh_Self-Portrait_with_Straw_Hat_1887-Metropolitan.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vincent_Willem_van_Gogh_127.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/foxypar4/1852428153/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thematthewknot/8718351122/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwarby/4915772994/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_CSM_lunar_orbit.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mission_control_center.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jerryjohn/63351338
http://www.flickr.com/photos/westm/4690323994/
Photo from Berlin – Maciej Biłas
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30. Thank you
@pawelwrzeszcz
pawel@softwaremill.com
softwaremill.com
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