This is the latest deck for the Distributed Agile Game. This was a Distributed Agile simulation that we ran at XP2010 and Agile 2009. This is also something that we run at TWU, for our recent grads. Contact me if you need details of this simulation or want to know how to run it!

2. The Distributed
Agile Game

3. About Us

4. Sumeet Moghe
learninggeneralist.com
sumeet_moghe

5. Chirag Doshi
doshibrothers.posterous.com
chiragsdoshi

6. Our Workshop

7. is about

8. Distributed Agile

9. The
Challenges

10. Overcoming
them

11. is not about

12. the value of
Distribution

13. ✖ the value of
Distribution

14. The Game Your Learnings Our Recipes

15. The Game

16. Agile

21. Distributed Agile

22. The
Rules

23. 2 sites

25. Onshore
Offshore

26. 10 minutes for Planning
(with a 3 minute phone call
at the end)
2 minutes 2 minutes 5 minutes
1 min
10 mins Showcase Retrospective
15 mins 5 mins 10 mins

27. 3 Iterations
2 minutes 2 minutes 5 minutes
1 min
10 mins Showcase Retrospective
15 mins 5 mins 10 mins

28. Your Deliverable

29. Wireframes

30. Unlimited
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31. 2 Flights

32. Let’s
Play!

33. Retrospect

34. Let’s
Play!

35. Combined
Retrospective

36. 2 changes

37. ...to help you
succeed

38. One last time...

39. Let’s
Play!

40. The Game Your Learnings Our Recipes

41. Your Learnings

42. The Game Your Learnings Our Recipes

43. Our Recipes

44. Practices

45. Dysfunctional Split
Developers Testers and Analysts Customers
Location 1 Location 2 Location 3

46. Functioning Split
Developers and Testers Customers and Analysts
Location 1 Location 2

47. Ideal Split
Developers Testers Analysts Customers
Analysts Customers Testers Developers
Location 1 Location 2

48. Ideal Split (offshore)
Developers Testers Testers Developers
Analysts Customers Analysts
Location 1 Location 2

49. Faces to Names

50. Distributed Standups

51. End of day Handoffs

52. Beware of the Personal Cost

53. Leverage Technology

54. Swap time
adjustments

55. 2 Aug, 5 Nov,
25 Nov, 2 Oct

56. Cross Pollinate

57. Tools

58. Virtual Project Space

59. Microblogging

60. Video Chat

61. Web Office

62. Wikis

63. Online Discussions

64. Distributed Planning Poker

65. Distributed Meetings

66. Web Conferencing

67. Low End Video-Con

68. Mid End Video-Con

69. Tele-presence

70. There’s a solution for
every budget

71. Retrospectives

74. ideaboardz.com

75. Keep your eyes open...

76. Virtual Worlds

77. Dr. Karl Kapp

78. Remember...

79. Whatever you do on an Agile team...

84. do more on Distributed teams!

85. Questions?

86. Session Outputs

87. learninggeneralist.com

88. Thank You