Presentation from IT Brunch online conference "Visiting Agile practitioners" (November 2011) about building of small hyper-productive teams and managing them to drive projects to success.

1. Small
Hyper-Productive
Teams
Mikalai Alimenkou
http://xpinjection.com

2. Background
• Java Technical Lead/Scrum Master at Zoral
Labs
• 7+ years in software development
• 5+ years of working by Agile
methodologies
• Expert in Agile engineering practices
• Founder and coach at XP Injection
(http://xpinjection.com)
• Organizer of Selenium Camp, JEEConf and
XP Days Ukraine conferences

3. Myth 1: Large
project requires
large team

4. Speed is important!
20 x 1 = 4 x 5 = 2 x 10

5. Transparency helps
to avoid wastes

6. Четкая и слаженная работа на
максимальной скорости
Right motivation
improves productivity

7. Myth 2: Large
teams help to
• Большие команды позволяют экономить
save money…

8. You pay with quality

9. You can save on managers!
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10. Меньше времени уходит на митинги
и принятие решений
Less time spend
on meetings

11. Best people don’t
waste their time

12. How to build
Как построить такую команду
great team?

13. Hire right people

14. Start with pair
programming

15. Much code review
between team members

16. Reduce amount of
“process” work

17. Maximize face to face
communication

18. Remove impediments

19. What if it is really
large project?

20. Use small functional
teams

21. @xpinjection
http://xpinjection.com
mikalai.alimenkou@xpinjection.com